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Big Joe Turner

Background information
Birth name Joseph Vernon Turner Jr
Also known as The Boss of the Blues
Born May 18, 1911(1911-05-18)
Origin Kansas City, Missouri
Died November 24, 1985 (aged 74)
Genre(s) Jump blues
Swing music
Years active 1920s – 1980s
Label(s) Atlantic Records
National Records
Pablo Records
Various
Associated acts Pete Johnson
Count Basie Orchestra
Website * www.hoyhoy

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Career

Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s. The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African " Shake Rattle and Roll " is a prototypical Twelve bar blues -form Rock and roll song written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989.

Known variously as The Boss of the Blues, and Big Joe Turner (due to his 6'2", 300+ lbs stature), Turner was born in Kansas City and first discovered his love of music through involvement in the church. Turner's father was killed in a train accident when Joe was only four years old. [2] He began singing on street corners for money, leaving school at age fourteen to begin working in Kansas City's club scene, first as a cook, and later as a singing bartender. A nightclub (or "night club" or "club" is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark A chef is a person who cooks professionally In a professional kitchen setting the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen the executive A bartender ( barman, barkeeper, barmaid, mixologist, tapster among other names serves Beverages He eventually became known as The Singing Barman, and worked in such venues as The Kingfish Club and The Sunset, where he and his piano playing partner Pete Johnson became resident performers. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers Peter (Pete Johnson ( 24 March 1904 - 23 March 1967) was an American Jazz Pianist, best known as a leading The Sunset was managed by Piney Brown. It featured "separate but equal" facilities for white patrons. White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. Turner wrote "Piney Brown Blues" in his honor and sang it throughout his entire career.

At that time Kansas City was a wide-open town run by "Boss" Tom Pendergast. A boss, in politics, is a person who wields De facto power over a particular political region or Constituency. Thomas Joseph Pendergast ( July 22, 1873 &ndash January 26, 1945) controlled Kansas City and Jackson County Missouri Despite this, the clubs were subject to frequent raids by the police, but as Turner recounts, "The Boss man would have his bondsmen down at the police station before we got there. A bail bond agent, or bondsman is any person or corporation which will act as a Surety and pledge money or property as Bail for the appearance of a criminal A police station (also called stationhouse) is a Building which serves as the Headquarters of a Police force or unit which serves a specific We'd walk in, sign our names and walk right out. Then we would cabaret until morning".

His partnership with boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson proved fruitful. Boogie-woogie is a style of Piano -based Blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s but originated much earlier and was extended from piano Together they headed to New York in 1936, where they appeared on a bill with Benny Goodman, but as Turner recounts, "After our show with Goodman, we auditioned at several places, but New York wasn't ready for us yet, so we headed back to K. The City of New York C. ". Eventually they were spotted by the talent scout, John H. Hammond in 1938, who invited them back to New York to appear in one of his "From Spirituals to Swing" concerts at Carnegie Hall, which was instrumental in introducing jazz and blues to a wider American audience. John Henry Hammond II ( December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was a Record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the From Spirituals to Swing was the title of two influential concerts presented by John Hammond in Carnegie Hall on 23 December 1938 and 24 December 1939 Carnegie Hall (generally ˌkɑrnɨgi ˈhɔːl is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States

Due in part to their appearance at Carnegie Hall, Turner and Johnson scored a major hit with "Roll 'Em Pete". A Hit record is a Sound recording, usually in the form of a single or Album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or "Roll 'Em Pete" is a Rhythm and blues song originally recorded in 1938 by Big Joe Turner and pianist Pete Johnson. The track contained one of the earliest recorded examples of a back beat. In Music, back beat (also backbeat) is a term applied both to a specific style of Rhythmic Accentuation with accent on even It was a song which Turner recorded many times, with various combinations of musicians, over the ensuing years.

In 1939, along with boogie players Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, they began a residency at Café Society, a club in New York City, where they appeared on the same bill as Billie Holiday and Frank Newton's band. Albert Ammons ( September 23 1907 — December 2 1949) was an American Pianist. Meade Anderson "Lux" Lewis ( September 3, 1905 – June 7, 1964) was a United States pianist and composer noted for his work Café society was the collective description for the so-called "beautiful people" and "bright young things" who gathered in fashionable cafes and restaurants in Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7 1915 – July 17 1959 was an American Jazz singer and songwriter Besides "Roll 'Em, Pete", Turner's best known recordings from this period are probably "Cherry Red", "I Want A Little Girl" and "Wee Baby Blues".

In 1941, he headed to Los Angeles where he performed in Duke Ellington's revue Jump for Joy in Hollywood. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29 1899 &ndash May 24 1974 was an American Composer, Pianist, and Bandleader. A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical Entertainment that combines Music, dance and sketches. He appeared as a singing policeman in a sketch called "He's on the Beat". A police officer (also known as a policeman or policewoman) is a warranted employee of a Police force. Sketch comedy consists of a series of short Comedy scenes or vignettes called "sketches" commonly between one and ten minutes long L.A. became his home base for a time, and in 1945 he opened his own bar, The Blue Moon Club with Pete Johnson. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West A bar (also called a Pub or Tavern) is a business that serves drinks especially Alcoholic beverages such as beer liquor and mixed drinks for consumption

Turner made lots of records, not only with Johnson but with the pianists Art Tatum and Sammy Price and with various small jazz ensembles. Arthur Tatum Jr ( October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American Jazz Pianist and Virtuoso. Sammy Price ( October 6 1908 - April 14 1992) was an American Jazz and blues Pianist and Bandleader A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. [3] He recorded on several record labels, particularly National Records, and also appeared with the Count Basie Orchestra. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music National Records was a Record label that was started in New York by Albert Green in 1945 and lasted till sometime in 1950. The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece Big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the Swing era, founded by Count Basie. In his career, Turner successively led the transition from big bands to jump blues to rhythm and blues, and finally to rock and roll. A big band is a type of Musical ensemble associated with playing jazz music and which became popular during the Swing Era from the early 1930s until the late Jump blues is a type of Up-tempo Blues music influenced by Big band sound Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African Turner was a master of traditional blues verses and at the legendary Kansas City jam sessions he could swap choruses with instrumental soloists for hours. In the folk tradition there are many traditional blues verses that have been sung over and over by many artists A jam session is a Musical act where Musicians gather and play (or "jam") without extensive preparation or predefined Arrangements A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat" and later from Old French refraindre) is the Line or lines that are A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a In Music, a solo (from the Italian solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer

In 1951, while performing with the Count Basie Orchestra at Harlem's Apollo Theater as a replacement for Jimmy Rushing, he was spotted by Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün, who signed him to their new recording company, Atlantic Records. Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African American cultural and business center James Andrew Rushing ( August 26, 1903 - June 8, 1972) (known as Jimmy Rushing) was an American Blues shouter Ahmet Ertegün ( July 31, 1923 &ndash December 14, 2006) and Nesuhi Ertegün ( November 26, 1917 Atlantic Records ( Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American Record label best known for its many recordings of Rhythm & blues, Rock Turner recorded a number of hits for them, including the blues standards, "Chains of Love" and "Sweet Sixteen" before hitting it big in 1954 with "Shake, Rattle and Roll", which not only enhanced his career, turning him into a teenage favorite, but also helped to transform popular music. " Shake Rattle and Roll " is a prototypical Twelve bar blues -form Rock and roll song written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more

Although the cover version of the song by Bill Haley & His Comets, with the risqué lyrics incompletely cleaned up, was a bigger hit, many listeners sought out Turner's version and were introduced thereby to the whole world of rhythm and blues. In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released This article is specifically about the rock and roll band See Bill Haley for biographical information regarding Haley himself Lyrics (in singular form Lyric) are a set of words that accompany music either by speaking or singing Elvis Presley showed he needed no such introduction. His version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" combined Turner's lyrics with Haley's arrangement, but was not successful as a single release. In Music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing Music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch such

Amidst the rock songs he found time to cut the classic Boss of the Blues album. [3]

After a number of hits in this vein, Turner left popular music behind and returned to his roots as a singer with small jazz combos, recording numerous albums in that style in the 1960s and 1970s. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. In 1966, Bill Haley helped revive Turner's career by lending him the Comets for a series of popular recordings in Mexico (apparently no one thought of getting the two to record a duet of "Shake, Rattle and Roll", as no such recording has yet surfaced). This article is specifically about the singer For detailed information about his rock and roll group see Bill Haley & His Comets. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. A duet is a Musical composition or piece for two Performers In Classical music the term is most often used for a composition for two singers In 1977 he recorded a version of Guitar Slim's song, "The Things That I Used to Do". In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones ( December 10 1926 &ndash February 7 1959) was a New Orleans " The Things That I Used to Do " is a Blues song written by Guitar Slim (aka Eddie Jones and his 1953 recording of it in New Orleans, was

In the 1960s and 1970s he was reclaimed by jazz and blues, appearing at many festivals and recording for the impresario Norman Granz's Pablo label, once with his friendly rival, Jimmy Witherspoon. A music festival is a Festival oriented towards Music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as Musical genre, Nationality or locality Impresario, from the Italian impresa an enterprise or undertaking is a traditional term still very much in use in the Entertainment industry for Norman Granz ( Los Angeles, USA, August 6, 1918 - Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2001) was an American Pablo Records was a Record label founded Jimmy Witherspoon ( August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American Blues singer He also worked with the German boogie-woogie pianist Axel Zwingenberger. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955 in Hamburg Germany) is a Blues and boogie-woogie Pianist, and Songwriter [3]

It is a mark of his dominance as a singer that he won the Esquire magazine award for male vocalist in 1945, the Melody Maker award for best 'new' vocalist in 1956, and the British Jazz Journal award as top male singer in 1965. Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. His career thus stretched from the bar rooms of Kansas City in the 1920s (at the age of twelve when he performed with a pencilled moustache and his father's hat), on to the European jazz music festivals of the 1980s. A pencil is a Writing or Drawing instrument consisting of a thin stick of Pigment (usually Graphite, but can also be coloured pigment or For the Swedish heavy metal band see Mustasch. A moustache (or mustache) is Facial hair grown on the upper Lip. The father is defined as the Male Parent of an offspring The Adjective "paternal" refers to father parallel to "maternal" for The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989.

In 1983, only two years before his death, Turner was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. The Blues Hall of Fame is a listing of people who have significantly contributed to Blues music [4]

Death

He died in Inglewood, California in November 1985, at the age of seventy four of a heart attack, having suffered the earlier effects of arthritis, a stroke and diabetes. Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation plural arthritides is a group of conditions involving damage to the Joints of the body A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain Diabetes mellitus (ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz or /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtəs/ /məˈlaɪtəs/ or /ˈmɛlətəs/ often referred to simply as diabetes ( Ancient Greek: grc Big Joe Turner was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. A posthumous recognition is a ceremonial award given after the recipient has died usually in honor of an action associated with their death The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland Ohio, United States Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) [5]

Tribute

The late, New York Times music critic Robert Palmer, said: ". Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific Music journalism is criticism and reportage about Music. It began in the eighteenth century as comment on what is now thought of as ' Classical music ' Robert Franklin Palmer Jr ( June 19, 1945 &ndash November 20, 1997) was a 20th century American writer Musicologist, . . his voice, pushing like a Count Basie solo, rich and grainy as a section of saxophones, which dominated the room with the sheer sumptuousness of its sound. [6]

Quotation

“ Roll 'em boy,

Gonna jump for joy,
Yeah man, happy as a baby boy,
My baby just brought me a brand new choo-choo toy.

”
"Roll 'Em, Pete" -- by Joe Turner and Pete Johnson

Most famous recordings

Tracks marked as † were million selling discs. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. " Midnight Special " is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) A gramophone

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References

  1. ^ IMDb database
  2. ^ "Big Joe Turner" at BBC website
  3. ^ a b c Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8 1911 – August 16 1938 is among the most famous of Delta blues musicians Robert Cray (born August 1, 1953) is an American Blues musician Guitarist, and Singer. Dubai: Carlton Books Limited, p. 178–79. ISBN 1-85868-255-X.  
  4. ^ 1996 Inductees to the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame at Infoplease. com
  5. ^ Blues.about.com website
  6. ^ Rhino.com/Black History/Mini biography
  7. ^ Amazon.com
  8. ^ a b c Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs, Second, London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd, p. 57. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.  

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