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Title: Big Joe Turner
Description: Obituary article about Big Joe Turner, an early Kansas City blues singer dying at the age of 74 on November 24, 1985 in California. Former singer and bartender "at the Sunset Club, owned by Felix Payne, managed by Piney Brown, and with house piano by Pete Johnson."
Date: 1985-11-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Unsung Heroes of Rock' n ' Roll
Description: File containing photos and a chapter of the book about Big Joe Turner (1911-1985), a jazz and blues singer in 1920s-1930s Kansas City. Native Kansas Citian starting out here at such nightclubs as the Sunset Club and working with Count Basie and Bennie Moton before leaving for New York City in the late 1940s, recording fellow Kansas Citian Jesse Stone's 1954 hit "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
Date: 1984
Object Type: Book

Title: An Afternoon with Jay McShann
Description: Interview with Jay McShann, in which he discusses his jazz education, playing with Joe Turner, and his upbringing in a religious family.
Date: 2006-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Clear Your Calendar -- Stan's Big Joe Turner Birthday Bash Coming May 20!
Description: Article announces the May 20, 2006 celebration of Big Joe Turner's birthday by the Kansas City Blues Society. Turner (whose birth date is actually May 18th), is best remembered for his original version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll," but was a popular singer in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri throughout the 1930's.
Date: 2006-05-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Louis' Children: American Jazz Singers
Description: Chapter of the book about the black Kansas City jazz musicians Little Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner and Pha Terrell," all singers. Description of James Andrew Rushing (1905-1972), as a native of Oklahoma City coming to Kansas City in the 1920s "to sing with Walter Page's Blue Devils" with Count Basie before joining Bennie Moten's band and leaving for New York City. Description of Joe Turner (1911-1985) as a native of Kansas City starting out in the early 1930s "at the Backbiter's nightclub on Independence Avenue and Troost" before recording the original version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and leaving for Los Angeles in the 1960s. Description of Elmer Terrell (1910-1945) as a native of Kansas City performing at the 18th Street Club in the early 1930s and then as vocalist for Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy band from 1933 until moving to Los Angeles in the early 1940s.
Date: 1984
Object Type: Book

Title: Last of the Blue Devils
Description: Presents the story of Kansas City jazz in the twenties and thirties, when this midwestern city acquired an intense concentration of nightlife. Includes performances by, and interviews with, Count Basie and his orchestra, Bennie Motten and his orchestra, Joe Turner, Jay McShann, Charlie Parker, and the Oklahoma Blue Devils.
Date: 1979
Object Type: Audio Visual

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