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There is no question that Big Joe Turner rocked. He rocked harder than any jump blues bandleader, his band hitting the downbeat with a vengeance matched only by Turner’s full-throated roar. This was big-band blues in sound but not in style; it was rock & roll before there was a name for it. Bear Family’s 2011 set Rocks concentrates on his hardest-swinging R&B, leaning hard on Turner’s classic sides for Atlantic: “Roll 'Em Pete”; “Honey Hush”; “Flip, Flop and Fly”; and “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” which Bill Haley sweetened up for the first crossover rock & roll single. There’s no saccharine sweetness here, just thundering R&B, with the tracks dipping into his latter career just enough to prove that Turner was no few-years dynamo -- he was a force of nature who could still deliver after his time passed. There are other collections that perhaps serve up the expected hits in a cleaner fashion, but this has the big, bold infectious swing of the man at his best.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Big Joe Turner, MainArtist - Charles Calhoun, Composer
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Big Joe Turner, MainArtist - Doc Pomus, Reginald Ashby, Composer
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Renald Richard, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Big Joe Turner, MainArtist - J. Mayo Williams, Bo Chatman, M. Parish, Composer
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Lou Willie Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Rudolph Toombs, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Lou Willie Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Big Joe Turner, MainArtist - Charles Calhoun, Composer
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Big Joe Turner, MainArtist - Billy Nightingale, Composer
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Lou Willie Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Big Joe Turner, MainArtist - Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Composer
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Pete Johnson, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
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Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
(C) 2013 Bear Family Records GmbH (P) 2013 Bear Family Records GmbH
Joe Turner, Composer - Big Joe Turner, MainArtist
(C) 2013 Bear Family Records GmbH (P) 2013 Bear Family Records GmbH
Album review
There is no question that Big Joe Turner rocked. He rocked harder than any jump blues bandleader, his band hitting the downbeat with a vengeance matched only by Turner’s full-throated roar. This was big-band blues in sound but not in style; it was rock & roll before there was a name for it. Bear Family’s 2011 set Rocks concentrates on his hardest-swinging R&B, leaning hard on Turner’s classic sides for Atlantic: “Roll 'Em Pete”; “Honey Hush”; “Flip, Flop and Fly”; and “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” which Bill Haley sweetened up for the first crossover rock & roll single. There’s no saccharine sweetness here, just thundering R&B, with the tracks dipping into his latter career just enough to prove that Turner was no few-years dynamo -- he was a force of nature who could still deliver after his time passed. There are other collections that perhaps serve up the expected hits in a cleaner fashion, but this has the big, bold infectious swing of the man at his best.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 28 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:52
- Main artists: Big Joe Turner
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Bear Family Records GmbH
- Genre: Humour/Spoken Word
(C) 2013 Bear Family Records GmbH (P) 2013 Bear Family Records GmbH
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