Esteban 'Steve' Jordan: All-Star Tribute set Sunday in Austin

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CONTACT:  Deb Fleming, deb@theoakslive.com

SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO LEGENDARY TEXAS ACCORDIAN MASTER ESTEBAN 'STEVE' JORDAN!!!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Show from 3 pm until 8 pm; Doors at 2:30 pm

H & H Ballroom
4404 Brandt Rd
Austin, TX 78744
(512) 282-1143

Entry Fee: $15;   Advance Fee: $12.50

Tickets will be available at the door and from FrontGate Tickets at www.frontgatetickets.com . 

Food and Beverages available on site.  

Sponsors to date are: Austin Chronicle, Austin Latino Music Association, Eliseo Productions, Guero's Taco Bar, Joey Pena BBQ, La Voz, Larry and Susie Lange, The Oaks, Torchy's Tacos, Rock N Roll Rentals, Uncle John Turner Foundation

Texas born and San Antonio based accordion extraordinaire, Esteban 'Steve' Jordan will be honored at The Steve Jordan Tribute Show be held at the H & H Ballroom in Austin Texas on August 10, 2008.  The event is produced by a local group of Jordan Supporters (including The Oaks owners Steve Dean and Deb Fleming and Larry Lange and His Lonely Knights) and supported by the Austin Latino Music Association.  There will be a live performance by Steve Jordan and his family along with a stellar line up of talent paying special tribute to this extraordinary talent. 

PERFORMERS INCLUDE:

Little Joe, Los Pinkys, Max Baca & the TexManiacs, Conjunto Aztlan, Ernie Garibay, Mariachi Corbetas (Shorty & the Corvettes), Chicano Soul Revue with Larry Lange & His Lonely Knights featuring Rudy T Gonzales, Little Henry, Sauce Gonzalez and Dimus Garza, Johnny Degollado y su Conjunto, Bobby Fuentes, Texana Dames, and more special guests.  Steve Jordan and family, Rio Jordan will also perform. 

Over the course of his career, Jordan's span of styles has marveled and amazed audiences.  Jordan is known as "the accordion wizard" and "The Jimi Hendrix of the accordion" and in fact has played the master's 'Purple Haze' on his accordion in clubs and at festivals where Mexican-American roots music was welcome and flourished. In 1982, at age 43, Jordan became one of the first musicians named to the Tejano Conjunto Hall of Fame.  He recorded two albums for the Massachusetts folk label Rounder, The Return of El Parche (1986) and El Huracán (1987), and around 1985 the California-based roots music label Arhoolie acquired the rights to some of the music Jordan had recorded for smaller labels. Several Arhoolie releases followed, and in 1986 Jordan provided music for the Cheech Marin film 'Born in East L.A'.  The following year Jordan was nominated for a Grammy Award for his Hacienda-label album Turn Me Loose, which was picked up by giant RCA. Though he lost the award to fellow tejano musician Flaco Jimenez, Jordan gained further exposure and then dropped out of sight shortly after a highly successful appearance in Europe at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1988.  Some speculated that he could afford to cut back on his activities because he was reaping profits from the Tex-Mex Rockordeon he had designed for the German musical instrument firm Hohner, a top-rated accordion manufacturer.   Jordan has continued to perform and record occasionally, and his band includes his two sons Steve III and Richard.   He has appeared at San Antonio's Saluté club on a regular basis in recent years but due to his illness has cut back to only occasional performances.   His creative musical talent still awaits full appreciation by music historians and music lovers from all walks of life. 

"A second-generation, innovative virtuoso and an inheritor of the basic style who has brilliantly incorporated outside influences and pushed the music to its limits."

The Washington Post

"The best accordionist in the world."
David Hidalgo, Los Lobos lead vocalist

 "My favorite form of soulful recharge is getting in a room with Steve "Esteban" Jordan and his accordion."  Michael Corcoran, Austin American Statesman

MORE EVENT INFORMATION

Sponsors for this event are needed so any interested party, business entity, organization or individual are encouraged to contact the organizers for more information to help with this great cause. All proceeds will go to benefit Steve Jordan.  

MORE BACKGROUND ON ESTEBAN 'STEVE' JORDAN

Jordan has worn a black eye patch over one eye for the majority of his life due to partial blindness at an early age. As a result, he acquired the nickname "El Parche," or "The Patch." For much of his career he used the Spanish and English forms of his first name, Esteban and Steve, more or less interchangeably. Jordan, one of 15 children born to parents who were migrant agricultural workers in South Texas, is an accomplished musician by any standard and plays 35 different instruments including several obscure ones used in older Latin and Latin American folk music. He has constantly pushed the limits of the accordion spanning genres of music never attributed to the instrument. He experimented with rock, blues, and country sounds, but his most striking innovation was the incorporation of a large dose of Latin jazz into the rhythmically straightforward tradition of conjunto, with its polkas, waltzes, and Mexican rancheras. His innovations were all the more striking because he devised them using the simple button accordion, seemingly more restricted in its capabilities than the keyboard "piano" accordion.

You Tube Link - Steve Jordan, Carlos Santana & Jerry Garcia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhX9DJIZ1NU&eurl=http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2008/06/18/steve_jordan_tribute_aug_10.html

Web info at .....
www.handhballroom.net
www.austinlatinomusic.com
www.theoakslive.com