Biography

A monumental figure in American music, Kansas City-born Big Joe Turner started performing in the late 1920s as a band singer for Bennie Moten, Count Basie, and others. Over the next couple of decades Turner helped define the boogie-woogie and jump-blues styles, alongside the likes of Meade Lux Lewis and Willie "the Lion" Smith. In the early '50s, he laid down the template for rock & roll with such tracks as "Shake, Rattle & Roll," his style providing an enormous influence on the first generation of rock & roll artists (many of whom covered the songs Turner made famous). A giant of jazz, blues, and rock & roll, Turner continued to perform all three well into the '70s, passing away in 1985.

Top Tracks

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• (we're Gonna) Jump For Joy

• Adam Bit The Apple

• Atomic Boogie

• Battle Of The Blues, Pt. 1

• Battle Of The Blues, Pt. 2

• Ben Rides Out

• Blues For The Lowland

• Blues Jump The Rabbit

• Blues Jumped A Rabbit

• Boogie Woogie Baby

• Boogie Woogie Country Girl

• Careless Love

• Chain Of Love

• Chains Of Love

• Cherry Red

• Corrina, Corrina

• Corrine Corrina

• Corrine, Corrina

• Crawdad Hole

• Doggin' The Dog

• Down By The Riverside

• Flip Flop And Fly

• Flip, Flop And Fly

• Fuzzy Wuzzy Honey

• Goin' To Chicago Blues

• Hide 'n' Seed

• Hollywood Bed

• Hollywood Bed (cherry Red Blues)

• Honey Hush

• Honeydripper

• How Long, How Long Blues

• Howling Winds

• I Don't Dig It

• I Got Love For Sale

• I'm Still In The Dark

• Jelly, Jelly

• Johnson And Turner Blues

• Jumpin' Tonight (midnight Rocking)

• Life Ain't Easy

• Low Down Dog

• Lucille

• Lucille, Lucille

• Mardi Gras Boogie

• Married Woman

• Married Woman Blues

• Midnight Cannonball

• Midnight Special Train

• Miss Brown Blues

• Morning Glory

• Mutiny In The Doghouse

• New Ooh Wee Baby Blues

• Nobody In Mind

• Pennies From, Heaven

• Piney Brown Blues

• Po' Boy

• Poor Lover's Blues

• Red Sails In The Sunset

• Rock A While

• Rock Of Gibralter

• Rocket Boogie 88, Pt. 1

• Rocks In My Bed

• Roll' Em Pete

• Roll 'em Pete

• S.k. Blues

• S.k. Blues, Pt. 1

• Shake It And Break It

• Shake, Rattle & Roll

• Shake, Rattle And Roll

• So Long

• St. Louis Blues

• Stormy Monday

• Sunday Morning Blues

• Sweet Lorraine

• Sweet Sixteen

• T V Mama

• T.v. Momma

• 'tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

• Tell Me Pretty Baby

• The Chicken And The Hawk

• The Chicken And The Hawk (up, Up And Away)

• The Things That I Used To Do

• Tv Mama

• Watch That Jive

• Wee Baby Blues

• Whistle Stop

• Wine-o-baby Boogie

Discography

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• Have No Fear, Joe Turner Is Here

  Original Jazz Classics

  1996

• Patcha, Patcha All Night Long

  Original Jazz Classics

  1985

• Kansas City Here I Come

  Pablo/OJC

  1984

• Blues Train

  Muse

  1983

• Nobody in Mind

  Pablo/OJC

  1982

• In the Evening

  Original Jazz Classics

  1977

• Things That I Used to Do

  Original Jazz Classics

  1977

• The Midnight Special

  Original Jazz Classics

  1976

• Everyday I Have the Blues

  Original Jazz Classics / Pablo/OJC

  1975

• The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner

  Pablo/OJC

  1974

• Life Ain't Easy

  Original Jazz Classics

  1974

• Flip, Flop & Fly

  Original Jazz Classics

  1972

• Texas Style

  Evidence

  1971

• Bosses of the Blues, Vol. 1

  Bluebird RCA / RCA

  1969

• Singing the Blues

  Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

  1967

• Big Joe Rides Again

  Atlantic

  1960

• Joe Turner and the Blues

  Savoy

  1960

• Big Joe Is Here

  Atlantic

  1959

• Rockin' the Blues

  1958

• Joe Turner

  Atlantic

  1958

• The Boss of the Blues

  Collectables

  1956

• Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz

  Decca

  1953