Esteban Jordan passed away last week from liver cancer.  There was nobody like him.  I first heard Steve Jordan on Horizontes on KUT back in the early 1980s.  They played "El Kranke" - a long repetitious tune that likely had it's own specific dance steps.  It wasn't like anything I'd heard so I started listening to more.  I bought albums.  Some stuff was a little out there, likely fueled by El Polvito.  Here's a nice NPR piece on Esteban, done about a year ago:

...is sadly created by Todd to test his blog area on the site...  So we'll just have to wait for JR to write one of his own.