Joe Turner - Big Joe Rides Again - Speakers Corner LP

180-gram vinyl That the experts inducted "Big Joe" Turner into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983, i.e. during his lifetime, is surely in order when one considers how he expressed his attitude to life with his 12-bar stylistic freedom. That he was additionally honored by being posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, however, makes one wonder whether the incorruptible experts had made a mistake. No matter what: this giant of a man with his big, gentle voice had certainly earned a place of honour in the era of swing as well. Turner, who appeared on stage with Goodman, Ellington, Tatum and — in later years — with Gillespie and Eldridge, offers his listeners many facets of the blues. The opening number, "Switchin' In The Kitchen," is a fairly fast boogie-woogie where the vocal swings freely with sharp blasts in the background. Other swinging numbers, in which jazz champions such as Coleman Hawkins and Ernie Royal perform solos, include several ballad-like evergreens ("Penn