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| Title | Big Joe Turner |
| Abstract | 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." |
| Notes | Joe Turner. ..was one of the great urban blues singers whose predecessors were Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Rushing, and Blind Lemon Jefferson, and whose successors were the likes of Lightning Hopkins, B. B. King and Joe Williams, plus the deluge of rock 'n' rollers who have engulfed the world. |
| Date | November 25, 1985 |
| Source | Kansas City Times |
| Location | Vertical File: Jazz--People |
| Page | C1 |
| Local Subject | Turner, Joe (Big Joe)
Blues Music
Nightclubs
Musicians
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Newspaper Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 121945 |
| CONTENTdm number | 26982 |
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