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: