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Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist. ==Biography== Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School.〔Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins, ''African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston'', Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2010, p. 25.〕 An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regular member of Charlie Parker's quintet during 1947–48, which also featuring Miles Davis. He participated in Parker's Dial sessions in late 1947 that produced "Dewey Square", "Bongo Bop", "Bird of Paradise", and the ballad "Embraceable You". These performances are featured on ''Charlie Parker on Dial''. Jordan had a long solo career from the mid-1950s onwards, although for a period in the mid-1960s he drove a taxi in New York.〔 After periods accompanying Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz, he performed and recorded in the trio format. His most notable composition, "Jordu", became a jazz standard when trumpeter Clifford Brown adopted it into his repertoire. From 1978 he was resident in Copenhagen, Denmark, having begun recording an extensive sequence of albums for the SteepleChase label in 1973. He was reported not to have changed his style over the course of his career.〔 Some of his best live recordings are available on SteepleChase, a Danish label, or Marshmallow Records, a Japanese label. From 1952 to 1962 he was married to the jazz singer Sheila Jordan. Their union produced a daughter, Tracey J. Jordan. He died in Valby, Copenhagen.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duke Jordan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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