Clifford Jordan; Tenor Saxophonist Performed With Top Jazz Bands

Clifford Jordan, 61, a tenor saxophonist who performed and toured with such top jazz bands as those of Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Charlie Mingus and Max Roach. A native of Chicago, he appeared in such diverse spots as concert halls in Senegal and Europe and Eddie Condon’s club in New York City, where he fronted big bands. He launched his professional recording career with Blue Note and Prestige and went on to record more than 35 albums in his own name. In the 1980s, he experienced a creative resurgence recording “Repetition” for Soul Note. In 1990, he started his own big band. He had also formed a quintet with trumpeter Kenny Durham and later taught in the New York City public schools. In New York City on Saturday of cancer.