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Tejano Jody
*Rene Serrata & Bobby Naranjo*are in preparation for an early 2010 Showcase with 'Power House Records
Robert Dorantes & Avizo Band from Houston,TX
more info will be posted accordingly...
*The Rise Of Steve Jordan*
Jordan was a musical child prodigy who never went to school and, to this day, cannot read or write.Nearly blinded at birth in both eyes by a clumsy midwife, he picked up the accordion for the first time at a migrant labor camp in Texas when he was 7.Over a long, turbulent career drenched in booze and drugs, he played everything he heard, and learned every instrument he got his hands on. He was even good enough to play guitar with Willie Bobo's Latin jazz band in 1964. "What Steve Jordan did was, he electrified the accordion," says Sunny Sauceda, "He used pedals, he brought in jazz influences to the accordion playing. He brought in the effects that had never been done on the accordion — to this day, nobody does it." Those effects — like phase shifters, fuzzboxes and echoplexes — gave rise to the label that Jordan hates to this day: "the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion."Then there's the whole jazz thing, says Joel Guzman, an acclaimed traditional accordionist from Austin, Texas. "He's playing flat-fifths and raised 11ths, rhythmically so deep," Guzman says. "So, from a musical standpoint, he's a genius."
*Steve Jordan*
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