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Big Joe Turner Is Truth


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a tale of two tv mamas

Big Joe Turner - TV Mama (1954) - YouTube

Big Joe Turner - 01 - T.V. Mama ("Turns On The Blues", 1970) - YouTube

"imperfect" maybe but still astounding

Hampton Hawes All Stars ft Big Joe Turner Live at Memory Lane 1970 - YouTube

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Hampton Hawes - Harry 'Sweets' Edison - Sonny Criss - Teddy Edwards - Leroy Vinnegar - Bobby Thompson - Drums....

Special Guest: Big Joe Turner

 

Recorded live at the Memory Lane Steak House, from the T.V. Series "Jazz on Stage", Los Angeles, 1970

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I love Big Joe Turner's outputs on Pablo.  I admit that they are basically from his declining years, no producing/planning, just loose sloppy bunch of jams, but somehow feel very good.  My personal favorite is Life Ain't Easy.  Roy Eldridge's outburst is well worth the price of admission IMHO.

 

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One of the things I'll always regret is having to turn down Big Joe Turner's 'audition' gig at Tramps back in the 80s. I did a gig with Rudy Williams (Mingus' cousin) in the city, and he had Al Jabaz Williams on keyboard, and Charles "Honeyboy" Otis on drums and vocals. I still think "Honey Boy" was the greatest vocalist/drummer ever.

Anyway "Honey Boy" really dug my playing, so he invited me down to do the gig at Tramps with Big Joe Turner. I couldn't make it, because da boss man on my steady gig threatened to fire me if I didn't make his gig, which was the same night. The Joe Turner gig turned out to be a complicated situation: the artist formerly known as Fasstrack wound up doing the gig that night on guitar, but a famous songwriter who was at the gig that night, didn't approve of him for some reason, and he didn't get the gig. The guy that got the gig was a music store owner on LI, who passed away a few years ago. Joe Turner passed away six months after that Tramps gig, and my steady gig went on for about ten years after that, so that was some consolation.

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