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.

Ronny Jordan, a guitarist and leading player in the acid jazz movement of the ’80s and ’90s, has died. He was 51. The guitarist’s death was confirmed on Facebook today (Jan. 14) after Jordan ...