Benta's Funeral Home

Wrapper, .vimeoWrapper, .instagramWrapper { position: relative; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden;}/* Set the padding-bottom for 16:9 aspect ratio video from YouTube & Vimeo */.youtubeWrapper, .vimeoWrapper { padding-bottom: 56.25%;}/* Set padding-bottom for 5:6 aspect ratio Instagram content */.instagramWrapper { padding-bottom: 120%;}/* For each content source, set the IFRAME to be top left and occupy 100% of width and height of the containing DIV wrapper */.youtubeWrapper iframe,.youtubeWrapper object,.youtubeWrapper embed,.vimeoWrapper iframe,.vimeoWrapper object,.vimeoWrapper embed,.instagramWrapper iframe,.instagramWrapper object,.instagramWrapper embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;}Funeral services for James Jordan, the retired, former Director of Music Programs for the New York State Council on the Arts, will be held on Tuesday, December 18th at 11 a.m. EST at Benta's Funeral Home in Harlem. Benta's is located at 630 St. Nicholas Avenue. Visitation begins at 10:30 a.m.Statement from Denardo Coleman To all of our friends we are sad to relay the news that Ornette's cousin and long time manager, James Jordan has passed away at the age of 87. James and Ornette were inseparable virtually growing up as brothers in Fort Worth Texas. Both played in the Mother AME Church band as well as the IM Terrel high school band. James on tenor sax.James played professionally in big bands for Big Joe Turner, BB King and others. James then went on to begin a successful career working as a music educator in Columbus, Texas, and as a member of a popular jazz band in Austin. He later became a community activist in the war on poverty, and served as Executive Director of the Human Opportunities Corporation in Travis County.In the late 1960s Ornette asked James to join him in New York as his manager. They went on to accomplish many milestones including mounting Ornette's historic symphonic work Skies of America. The ...