Joe Turner

Though endlessly puzzled with the singer Big Joe Turner, pianist Joe Turner originated from a totally different direction, following a James P. Johnson/Fat Waller stride custom, armed with an excellent technique and an excellent sense of golf swing. Given birth to in Baltimore, he began to find out the piano from his mom at age group five and started to create a name for himself in Harlem as an adolescent soon after his proceed to NY in 1925. He was an accompanist to Adelaide Hall inside a duo, 1st with Alex Hill and Francis Carter, the second option with whom he and Hall toured European countries in 1931. He continued to be in European countries through 1939 when battle broke out, where he returned towards the U.S. to are a vocalist. After using Sy Oliver’s military music group in 1944-1945 and Rex Stewart in 1946, Turner came back towards the continent, surviving in Hungary in 1948 and Switzerland from 1949 to 1962. He resolved in Paris in 1962 inside a residency at La Calvados, continuing to try out engagements somewhere else in European countries and sometimes the U.S., and finally survived to became the final major energetic stride pianist of his period. Among his few obtainable albums is really a 1984 task with Knocky Parker and his Houserockers on Southland.