WEST PALM BEACH — The thumping, horn-filled songs of Louis Jordan fill The Rinker Playhouse, now transformed into The Funky Butt Jazz Club, a joint from the 1930s and 40s. On stage singing those hits ...

Too often, the word “link,” almost by divine right, is preceded by the word “missing.” Then there’s Louis Jordan, who is a definite link between many different kinds of music. In the early ’40s, the ...