Big Joe Turner - Cherry Red: The Essential Recordings Of Big Joe Turner

Title: Cherry Red: The Essential Recordings Of Big Joe Turner Artist: Big Joe Turner Release Date: 3/21/2000 Label: Indigo Duration: 62:43 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 766126411822 Genre: Rhythm & Blues Styles: Early R&B, Rock & Roll, Boogie-Woogie, West Coast Blues, Urban Blues, Swing, Jump Blues, Stride, Jazz Blues Moods: Boisterous, Joyous, Amiable/Good-Natured, Freewheeling, Party/Celebratory, Passionate, Fun, Sophisticated, Happy, Cheerful, Earthy, Exuberant, Rollicking Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Roll 'Em Pete
2. Goin' Away Blues
3. Cherry Red
4. Piney Brown's Blues
5. It's the Same Old Story
6. Rebecca
7. Little Bitty Gal's Blues
8. I Got a Gal (For Every Day in the Week)
9. S.K. Blues, Pt. 1
10. My Gal's a Jockey
11. Miss Brown Blues
12. That's When It Really Hurts
13. Sally Zu-Zazz
14. Morning Glory
15. Low Down Dog
16. Tell Me Pretty Baby (Howdy 'Ya Want Your Rollin' Done)
17. Wine-O-Baby Boogie
18. Radar Blues
19. I Don't Dig It
20. Born to Gamble
21. Ooo-Ouch-Stop
22. Around the Clock Blues, Pt. 1
23. Around the Clock Blues, Pt. 2

Year Type Label Catalog # 2000 CD Indigo 2118

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Big Joe Turner, whose early trademark mix of jump blues and jazz-inflected r&b still sounds alive and vital some seventy years later, was arguably at his best when the vocalist was paired with veteran stride pianist Pete Johnson. This set features the Turner/Johnson team on their first big hit, 1938's "Roll 'Em Pete," and the fully realized "Cherry Red" that came a year later and featured trumpeter Hot Lips Page. There are some small combo tracks here as well, and all of it is quite good, but Turner's most memorable years came in the '50s while he was signed to Atlantic Records. His signature "Shake, Rattle and Roll" came out in 1954, and it remains the track that will forever be attached to his name. That the song, along with his other '50s hits, is absent here means this compilation, while all good and fine, only tells the very beginning of the story. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits A.G. Godley Drums (Snare) Abe Bolar Bass Addison Farmer Bass Al Hall Bass Al Williams Piano Albert Ammons Piano Alray Kidd Drums (Snare) Art Farmer Trumpet Big Joe Turner Vocals Charles Hamilton Bass Dallas Bartley Bass Don Byas Sax (Tenor) Eddie Dougherty Drums (Snare) Ernest Ashley Guitar (Baritone) Frank Clarke Bass Frank Sleet Sax (Alto) Frankie Newton Trumpet George Cohn Trumpet Harold "Doc" West Drums (Snare) Hot Lips Page Trumpet Ike Perkins Guitar (Baritone) Jack McVea Sax (Alto) James Ross Trumpet Jesse Sailes Drums (Snare) Jewell L. Grant Sax (Baritone), Sax (Alto) John Collins Guitar (Baritone) Kirkland Bradford Sax (Alto) Lawrence Lucie Guitar (Baritone) Leon Washington Sax (Alto) Leonard Ware Guitar (Baritone) Lloyd Harrison Sax (Tenor) Maxwell Davis Sax (Tenor) Mickey Sims Bass Milburn Newman Sax (Baritone) Pee Wee Crayton Guitar (Baritone) Pete Johnson Piano Pete Peterson Sax (Tenor) Red Saunders Drums (Snare) Robert Brady Drums (Snare) Sammy Yates Trumpet Tab Smith Sax (Alto) Teddy Bunn Guitar (Baritone) Walter Williams Trumpet Warren Brocken Trumpet Wild Bill Moore Sax (Tenor) Winston Williams Vocal Ensemble, Bass