Louis Jordan has been played on NTS in shows including Dancing Through The 20th Century, featured first on 23 March 2014. Songs played include Stone Cold Dead In The Market, Saturday Night Fish Fry and Caledonia.

Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 - February 4, 1975) was a pioneering African-American jazz and rhythm & blues musician and songwriter who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era.

Jordan was one of the first black recording artists whose popularity…