Big Joe Turner “The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner”

Big Joe Turner

“The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner”
( LP Pablo Records, 1974 )
Catalog # 2310-717

Tracklisting:
01 Mornin’, Noon and Night [Turner] 4:17
02 I Know You Love Me Baby [Turner] 15:51
03 TV Mama [Turner] 14:01
04 ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do [Grainger, Prince, Williams] 7:37

Personnel & Notes:
Harry “Sweets” Edison, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry (tp)
Jimmy Robins (p, org)
Pee Wee Crayton (g)
Chuck Norris (b)
Washington Rucker (d)
Joe Turner (vo)
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA, September, 1974
Also like Joe Turner/Dizzy Gillespie/Roy Eldridge/Harry “Sweets” Edison/Clark Terry – The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner
(Pablo 2310-717; Fantasy OJC 497, OJCCD 497-2)

Review:
This album features a most unusual session. Veteran blues singer Joe Turner and his usual rhythm section of the mid-’70s (which includes guitarist Pee Wee Crayton) are joined by four notable trumpeters: Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry “Sweets” Edison, and Clark Terry. On three blues (including the 15-minute “I Know You Love Me Baby”) and “Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do,” the group stretches out with each of the trumpeters getting ample solo space. It is not a classic outing (a little more planning and better material might have helped), but it is colorful and unique enough to be easily recommended to straight-ahead jazz and blues fans.
By Scott Yanow (AMG)

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