This month marks guitarist Ronny Jordan's 55th birthday. A trailblazer in acid jazz, his debut album The Antidote foreshadowed Miles Davis' embrace of hip hop with the album Doo-Bop by six months.

Guitarist Ronny Jordan, one of the musicians who spearheaded the Acid Jazz movement in the early 1990s, has died at the age of 51. The London-born performer's death was announced by his brother ...