aka: Big Joe Turner
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Jump blues, rock and roll, swing music
Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner, Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, with the Hall lauding him as "the brawny voiced 'Boss of the Blues'".
Big Joe Is Here (1959)
Big Joe Rides Again (1960)
Turns on the Blues * (1970)
In the Evening (1976)
Nobody in Mind (1976) with Milt Jackson and Roy Eldridge
The Midnight Special (1976)
Things That I Used to Do (1977)
Everyday I Have the Blues (1978) with Pee Wee Crayton and Sonny Stitt
Let's Boogie Woogie All Night Long * (1978) with Axel Zwingenberger
Have No Fear, Joe Turner Is Here (1981)
Life Ain't Easy (1983)
Stormy Monday (1991)
The Chronological 1941-1946 (1997)
The Chronological 1946-1947 (1998)
The Chronological 1947-1948 (1999)
The Chronological 1949-1950 (2000)
appears on:
American Folk Blues Festival '66 (1966)
