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Jump for Joe

82.7K streams

82,732

Around the Clock

29.1K streams

29,104

Timeless Jazz: Joe Turner

28.3K streams

28,340

Remembering Joe Turner

27.5K streams

27,526

Lady Be Good

24.8K streams

24,797

Jumpin' and Shoutin'

15.8K streams

15,834

Shakin' Joe Turner

15.8K streams

15,834

The Boss Of The Blues

10.6K streams

10,554

Boss of the Blues

7.7K streams

7,677

Big Joe Is Here

1.3K streams

1,310

Biography

Though endlessly confused with the singer Big Joe Turner, pianist Joe Turner came from a completely different direction, following the James P. Johnson/Fats Waller stride tradition, armed with a superb technique and a fine sense of swing. Born in Baltimore, he started to learn the piano from his mother at age five and began to make a name for himself in Harlem as a teenager shortly after his move to New York in 1925. He was an accompanist to Adelaide Hall in a duo, first with Alex Hill and then Francis Carter, the latter with whom he and Hall toured Europe in 1931. He remained in Europe through 1939 when war broke out, upon which he returned to the U.S. to work as a singer. After playing with Sy Oliver's army band in 1944-1945 and Rex Stewart in 1946, Turner returned to the continent, residing in Hungary in 1948 and then Switzerland from 1949 to 1962. He settled in Paris in 1962 in a residency at La Calvados, continued to play engagements elsewhere in Europe and occasionally the U.S., and eventually survived to became the last major active stride pianist of his era. Among his few available albums is a 1984 project with Knocky Parker and his Houserockers on Southland. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi