Cherry Red: The Essential Recordings Of Big Joe Turner

by Big Joe Turner

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	03/07/2000
Label:	Indigo
UPC:	0766126411822
Rank:	189553

Tracks

1. Roll 'Em Pete
2. Goin' Away Blues
3. Cherry Red
4. Piney Brown Blues
5. It's the Same Old Story
6. Rebecca
7. Little Bittie Gal's Blues
8. I Got a Gal For Every Day
9. S.K. Blues
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
17. Wino Baby Boogie
18. Radar Blues
19. I Don't Dig It
20. Born to Gamble
21. OOO Ouch Stop
22. Around the Clock Blues (Parts 1 & 2)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

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

Technical Credits

Florence Cadrez   Composer
Andre Williams   Composer
Big Joe Turner   Composer
John Cadrey   Composer
Joe Turner   Composer
Horace Owens   Composer
Leroy Carr   Composer
Saunders King   Composer
Pete Johnson   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Lloyd Price   Composer
Wynonie Harris   Composer