Big Joe Turner
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The Alan Freed "Rock-n-Roll" Ball: St. Nicholas Arena, New York NY
Live Review by uncredited writer, Cash Box, 29 January 1955
THE ALAN Freed "Rock-n-Roll" Ball held at the St. Nicholas Arena, New York, on Friday and Saturday nights, January 14 and 15, had to be ...
Sippie Wallace, Otis Rush et al: Fifth American Folk Blues Festival, Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 8 October 1966
Blues by three in the worst possible setting ...
James Brown, Box Tops, Albert King, Otis Redding et al, Album Reviews
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 May 1968
Loads of R&B albums including Otis' great Dock Of The Bay LP ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 15 August 1970
An Old-Timer Hangs Loose ...
Joe Turner/LaVern Baker/The Clovers/The Coasters/The Drifters/Chuck Willis: Greatest Recordings
Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 3 February 1972
IN 1967, ARETHA Franklin moved from Columbia to Atlantic – in what soon proved to be one of the most important moments in the history ...
Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker and Otis Spann: Super Black Blues
Review by Bob Fisher, Cream, June 1972
IT'S TAKEN Phillips a long time to get around to issuing this superb album, probably the only genuine spontaneous blues jam ever commited to wax. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
If you're a living blues master, are you better off dead? ...
Obituary by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 December 1985
LAST WEEK we lost Big Joe Turner: he died in California at the age of 74 after decades of contributions to the popular music of ...
A Headstone for Big Joe Turner Is Aim of Benefit Concert Sunday
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 October 1991
BIG JOE Turner's powerful vocals on the original version of 'Shake, Rattle & Roll' propelled the late blues shouter into the Rock and Roll Hall ...
Sleeve notes by Pete Grendysa, Rhino Records, 1994
SHOW BUSINESS is full of Kings, Queens, Counts, Dukes, and even a Boss, but high above all the royalty shines the real Boss Of The ...
Big Joe Turner: Shout Rattle & Roll (Proper)
Review by Neil Slaven, Proper Records, 2005
ROMANTICS CALLED it "The Paris Of The Plains" but no one ever decided which arrondissement of France's capital Kansas City actually resembled. The red light ...
Book Excerpt by Tony Burke, Hardinge Simpole Books, June 2023
This is Tony's foreword to Derek Coller's biography Big Joe Turner – Feel So Fine ...
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