Joe Turner

USA

Born: 03 November 1907

Died: 21 July 1990

Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80

Genres: Jazz, Blues

Styles: Jazz Blues, Jump Blues/Piano Blues, Piano Blues, New York Blues, East Coast Blues, Urban Blues, West Coast Blues, Boogie-Woogie, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Stride, Early Jazz

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Though endlessly confused with the singer Big Joe Turner, pianist Joe Turner came from a completely different direction, following the James P. Johnson/Fats Waller stride tradition, armed with a superb technique and a fine sense of swing. He started to learn the piano from his mother at age five and began to make a name for himself in Harlem as a teenager shortly after his move to New York in 1925. He was an accompanist to Adelaide Hall in a duo with first Alex Hill and then Francis Carter, the latter with whom he and Hall toured Europe in 1931...

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