Monday, August 16, 2010

Steve Jordan - El Tremblor De San Francisco

The amazing Tejano accordionist Esteban "Steve" Jordan died on Friday. Unlike most of his colleagues (such as Flaco Jiménez), he played a piano accordion, not a button accordion, and was the first to start using electronic effects on the instrument, leading to his being called the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion. That's not quite accurate, but in "El Temblor de San Francisco" you can hear what people meant when they said so.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Steve played button accordion.

estiv said...

Damn. That's what happens when you rely on memory alone. Thanks for the correction.