Esteban "Steve" Jordan (February 23, 1939 – August 13, 2010) was a jazz, rock, blues, conjunto and Tejano musician from the United States.
Born in Elsa, Texas to migrant farm workers and partially blinded as an infant, Jordan was unable to work in the fields.
At the time, the musician Valerio Longoria followed the community of migrant farm workers and played for them in the labor camps.
More than any other accordionist, Jordan pushed the diatonic accordion to its limits, both musically and physically, playing traditional conjunto, rock, jazz, salsa, zydeco and more.
Jordan kept abreast of technological developments, using devices such as phase shifters, fuzzboxes, Echoplexes,[2][3] for which he named a song, "La Polka Plex",[4] and synthesizers, and was one of the few conjunto musicians to weave styles such as fusion jazz and rock into his music.
His bid for mainstream presence continued in 1986 when he was asked to do the soundtrack for the Cheech Marin film Born in East L.A.