Major Holley’s Salute to Louis Jordan at the North Sea Jazz Festival • 10-07-1981 • World of Jazz

Major Holley’s tribute to Louis Jordan. Major Holley junior (nickname 'Mule') (Detroit, 10 juli 1924 - Maplewood, 25 oktober 1990) was an American jazz bassist who played with Charlie Parker and Oscar Peterson.
At the 1981 North Sea Jazz Festival he payed tribute to the legendary bandleader and songwriter Louis Jordan

The band:
Eddie (Cleanhead) Vinson, sax
Eddy Chamblee, tenor sax
Doc Cheatham, trumpet
Oliver Jackson, drums
Billy Butler, guitar
Norman Simmons, piano
Major Holley, bass
Buster Brown, tap dancer
Chuck Green, tap dancer

Major Holley plays a selection of the following songs, all by Louis Jordan:

1. Dad Gum Yore Hide
2. I Want A Roof Over My Head
3. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
4. Do You Call That Buddy
5. Knock Me A Kiss
6. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
7. April In Paris
8. Reel Road Train
9. Kidney stew
10. Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule

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