biography
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Turner, Big Joe
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popular name of Joseph Turner
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–85)
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| biography:
| Jazz vocalist, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. A major influence on blues and rock musicians, he began as a blues-shouting bartender and came to prominence at the ‘Spirituals to Swing’ concert at Carnegie Hall in 1938. He teamed with boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson until 1955 and appeared in many jazz all-star contexts thereafter. |
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