TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1456
Big Joe Turner Album Rankings
1
Big Joe Turner's music is the aural equivalent of a rare Porterhouse steak -- oversized, juicy, and a glorious overload for the senses, and if isn't always good for you, that's just part of the fun.
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2
A curious gaggle of poorly recorded live tracks, late period studio tracks, and what sound like Atlantic outtakes.
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11
Producer Herb Abramson's first encounters with Big Joe Turner weren't at Atlantic, but for the National logo, where Turner paused from 1945 to 1947 and cut the 26 swinging numbers on this collection.
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12
Lusty, romping jump blues and boogies from 1947-1949 that team Big Joe Turner with his longtime piano partner Pete Johnson and a coterie of solid L.A. sessioneers.
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23
This is an excellent collection of Big Joe Turner's early blues sides from the '40s.
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25
This somewhat obscure Black & Blue session (reissued by Evidence on CD) features the great blues singer Big Joe Turner a year before he hooked up with the Pablo label.
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