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Turner, Big Joe
Turner, Joseph Vernon
birth name (Source: 1,2)
Williams, Joe Lee
birth name
jazz bluesman
| born: 18 May 1911 |
Kansas City, Missouri / state, USA |
Source: 3 |
| born: 1909 |
San Antonio, Texas / state, USA |
Source: 4 |
| died: 24 Nov 1985 |
Inglewood, California / state, USA |
Source: 3 |
| date of Variety obit: 27 Nov 1985 |
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Mancuso, Chuck
Popular music and the underground
Foundations of jazz, blues, country, and rock, 1900-1950
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, 626 p.
Bourgoin, Suzanne M.
Contemporary musicians volume 13
Edited by Suzanne M. Bourgoin
Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1995, 322 p.
Sonnier, Austin M.
A guide to the blues : history, who's who, research sources
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994, 287 p.
Blues-Les incontournables
Turin: Citanes Jazz Productions, 1994, 237 p.
St. Pierre, Roger
The best of the blues : the essential CD guide
San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1993, 144 p.
Larkin, Colin
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Colin Larkin
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1992, 4V p.
Number of People : 5,680
Debord, Brigitte
Herzhaft, Gerard
Encyclopedia of the blues
Translated by Brigitte Debord
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1992, 513 p.
Geschichte und Geschichtlin : 20 Jahre Jazzland
Vienna: Hot Club de Vienne, 1992, 135 p.
Byron, Toby
Welding, Pete
Bluesland : portraits of twelve major American blues masters
Edited by Pete Welding and Toby Byron
Tosches, Nick
Unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll
The birth of rock in the wild years before Elvis
New York: Harmony Books, 1991
Billard, Francois
Jazz anthology (1918-1939)
Arniac, Jean-Pierre
Encyclopedie du blues
Photographies de Jean-Pierre Arniac
Barlow, William
Looking up at down
The emergence of blues culture
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989, 404 p.
Les grandes voix du jazz
Paris: Editions de l'Instant, 1989, 126 p.
Country Blues-Biographien
p. 161 In:
Moll, Dieter
Das Buch des Blues
Konigswinter: Heel, 1989, 245 p.
Balliett, Whitney
American singers : twenty-seven portraits in song
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, 244 p.
Kernfeld, Barry Dean
The new Grove dictionary of jazz
Edited by Barry Kernfeld
London: Macmillan Press, 1988
Number of People : 3,377
Index to music necrology : supplement to the 1985 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1987, p. 768
Ertl, Franz
Soul-Diktionar
Koln: Wilhelm Herbst Verlag, 1987, 180 p.
Whitburn, Joel
Joel Whitburn's Pop memories 1890-1954
The history of American popular music compiled form America's popular music charts 1890-1954
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1986, 657 p.
Number of People : 1,376
Kington, Miles
Weef,
Gelly, Dave
The giants of jazz
Introduction by Miles Kington
Drawings by Weef
New York: Schirmer Books, 1986
Pomus, Doc
Doc Pomus Remembers.
Living Blues no. 69 (1986) :12-13.
Hess, Norbert
In Memoriam.
Blues Forum [W. Germany] no. 19 (February 1986):18-21.
Weinstock, Ron
Big Joe Turner, 1911-1985.
Living Blues no. 69 (1986):11-12.
Index to music necrology : 1985 necrology
Notes (Music Library Association), 1986, p. 757
Pareles, Jon
Benefit Concert Planned as Tribute to Joe Turner.
New York Times, 9 December 1985, sec. 3, p. 15.
Chilton, John
Simmen, John
Who's who of jazz : Storyville to Swing Street
Foreword by John Simmen
London: Macmillan, 1985, 175 p.
Number of People : 1,172
Giddins, Gary
Big Joe Turner, 1911-1985.
Village Voice 30, no. 49 (3 December 1985):71.
Penny, Dave
Burke, Tony
"Stand up and Shout the Blues" : Big Joe Turner.
Blues & Rhythm [England], no. 11 (July 1985):4-13
Blues & Rhythm [England], no. 12 (September 1985):4-6, 8-11.
Tosches, Nick
Unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll.
The birth of rock 'n' roll in the dark and wild years before Elvis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984
Gourse, Leslie
Louis' children : American jazz singers
New York: William Morrow, 1984
Guralnick, Peter
Lost highway : journeys & arrivals of American musicians
New York: Vintage Books, 1982, 362 p.
Nite, Norm N.
Clark, Dick
Rock on : the illustrated encyclopedia of rock n' roll : the solid gold years
Updated edition
Special introductin by Dick Clark
New York: Harper & Row, 1982
Number of People : 1,678
McDermott, Tom
Taking Gay Paree in Stride.
Down Beat 48, no. 8 (August 1981):13.
Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.
Number of People : 1,184
Index
The above item is part of :
Perry, Jeb H.
Variety obits. An index to obituaries in Variety, 1905-1978
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980, 311 p.
Number of People : 101,729
Eyle, Wim van
Record Listing : Big Joe Turner.
Block [Netherlands] no. 34 (September/October 1980) :24-25.
Silvester, Mario
Big Joe Turner.
Block [Netherlands] no. 34 (September/October 1980): 21-24.
Guralnick, Peter
Lost Highway : Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Boston: David R. Godine, 1979. 362 p.
New York: Vintage Books, 1982. 362 p.
Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984
Number of People : 16,262
Harris, Sheldon
Blues who's who
A biographical dictionary of blues singers
New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1979, 775 p.
Number of People : 560
Balliett, Whitney
American singers : 27 portraits in song
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979
Palmer, Robert
An Old Blues Singer Still Belts It Out.
New York Times, 12 November 1976, sec. 3, p. 8.
Maitner, Hans
Big Joe Turner.
Jazz [Switzerland] 6 (1976):11, 13-15.
Milton, Donald
Baggelaar, Kristin
The folk music encyclopaedia
Donald Milton
London: Omnibus Press, 1976
Sundstrom, Einar
Morin, Gosta
Moberg, Carl-Allan
Sohlman's musiklexikon
2. rev. och utvidgade uppl.
Redaktion: Gosta Morin, Carl-Alan Moberg och Einar Sundstrom
Stockholm: Sohlman Forlag, 1975-1979, 5 v.
Number of People : 10,962
Charters, Samuel Barclay
The legacy of the blues
A glimpse into the art and the lives of twelve great bluesmen. An informal study
London: Calder & Boyras, 1975, 192 p.
Stambler, Irwin
Encyclopedia of pop, rock and soul
By Irwin Stambler
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974, 609 p.
Number of People : 1,359
Kinkle, Roger D.
The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950
New Rochelle, N. Y.: Arlington, 1974
Number of People : 2,098
Supplement : Other musical prodigies
p. 195 In:
Fisher, Renee B.
Musical prodigies : masters at an early age
New York: Association Press, 1973, 240 p.
Clinco, Paul
O'Neal, Jim
Joe Turner.
Living Blues no. 10 (Autumn 1972):20-26.
Bohlander, Carlo
Holler, Karl Heinz
Reclams Jazzfuhrer
Von Carlo Bohlander und Karl Heinz Holler
Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 1971, 991 p.
Number of People : 1,780
Bogaert, Karel
Blues Lexicon : blues, Cajun, boogie woogie, gospel
Antwerp: Standaard Uitgeverij, 1971, 480 p.
Number of People : 556
Kofsky, Frank
The Real Boss of the Blues : Joe Turner
Flying Dutchman BTS-9002, 1969
Feather, Leonard
Lewis, John
The encyclopedia of jazz in the sixties
Foreword by John Lewis
New York: Horizon Press, 1966
Number of People : 1,137
Wilmer, Valerie
The Boss of the Blues : Joe Turner.
Down Beat 32, no. 24 (18 November 1965):16-17, 42.
Feather, Leonard
Goodman, Benny
Hammond, John
Ellington, Duke
The new edition of the encyclopedia of jazz
Completely revised, enlarged and brought up to date
Appreciations by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and John Hammond
New York: Horizon Press, 1960
Number of People : 1,945
Gleason, Ralph J.
Blues Sweetened : Joe Turner.
Down Beat 21, no. 14 (14 July 1954):2.
Wiedemann, Erik
Jorgensen, John
Jazzens hvem-hv ad-hvor
Redaktorer: John Jorgensen og Erik Wiedemann
Copenhagen: Politikens forlag, 1953, 391 p.
Number of People : 688
Demain, Robert J.
Big Joe Turner Turns on the Blues
Carisson, Ulf
Big Joe Turner : I Don't Dig It
Scheri, Robert
Big Joe Turner : Every Day I have the Blues
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