Steve Jordan; Jazz Guitarist Played with Goodman, Shaw

Steve Philip Jordan, 74, a jazz guitarist who played with Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. Jordan played with Shaw in 1941-1942, the U.S. Navy band from 1942 to 1945, several other orchestras as the second half of the ‘40s began, and with Stan Kenton in 1948 and Boyd Raeburn in 1949. He went to work in the production department at NBC in the early 1950s and then played for Goodman from 1953 to 1956. In his “Encyclopedia of Jazz,” critic Leonard Feather called Jordan “an able rhythm section guitarist in the tradition of (Count Basie) guitarist Freddie Green.” Jordan’s memoir, “Rhythm Man: 50 Years in Jazz,” co-authored by Tom Scanlan, was published in 1991. In Alexandria, Va., on Sept. 13 of heart failure.