As a young man growing up in Compton, Lonnie Jordan had to work to find the sounds he loved. He’d walk around, adjusting the dial on the far left-hand side of the radio band, until he located the spot where the signal carried the sound to the speaker clear and uninterrupted: Latin music broadcast from a far-off station, likely a 50,000-watter located outside U.S. borders. His passion for artists like Mongo Santamaría, Willie Colon and the Fania All-Stars, along with American jazz, blues, soul and funk music, drew him into the orbit of likeminded musicians from the nearby towns of Long Beach, San Pedro and Harbor City. Together, they formed the band War, which – with the addition of Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar – filtered those influences through their personal experiences to create cl

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