Big, Bad & Blue: The Big Joe Turner Anthology
Joe Turner had one of the great 50-year careers. Beginning as a blues shouter in the '30s with his partner, pianistPete Johnson, inKansas Citybars, he recorded often in a variety of contexts: as a duo with Johnson, with honking jump-blues bands, in front of small combos in the rock & roll era, with jazz and blues groups until close to his death in 1985. Capable of handling a huge range of material from 12-bar hollers to pop ballads, Turner easily fills this three-CD set with his vast depth and humor.--Rickey Wright