Here is a priceless video from the 1970s featuring Joe Jordan singing and playing the piano. Jordan was an important figure in the Chicago South Side music scene in the pre-jazz days when cabarets on State Street featured ragtime and vaudeville performances. While not really a jazz musician in the 1900s or 1910s, Jordan's legacy in terms of the South Side music scene deserves mention, as well as his music's contribution to early jazz in its transitional phase. He was also present at various moments in the development of ragtime (St. Louis), Chicago's South Side (Pekin Theater), and New York (Clef Club). By the 1920s, he was recording "jazz" with his Ten Sharps & Flats.
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