''The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner'' is an album by vocalist

Big Joe Turner Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American singer from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to ...

with trumpeters

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but addi ...

, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and

Clark Terry Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duke ...

, recorded in 1974 and released on the Pablo label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by

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stated: "It is not a classic outing... but it is colorful and unique enough to be easily recommended to straight-ahead jazz and blues fans." The authors of '' The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' wrote that the album is typical of the "Trumpet Kings" series, featuring "brilliant flashes of virtuosity interspersed with rhetoric and mere showing-off," but commented that, of the group, "the best is probably the Joe Turner meeting, where the great R&B singer puts everyone through their paces." Nick Deriso of Something Else! described the album "an amalgamation of so many concurrent joys that it's a wonder this Pablo release ever got made," and remarked: "Together, they sounded new all over again; it was like finding an undiscovered country. Often, the jazzers pushed Turner to fresh rhythmic heights of traditional 12-bar iambic pentameter. But just as typically, his incisive vocal work also inspired gritty, more soulful thoughts from the household-named horn players."

Track listing

''All compositions by Joe Turner except as indicated'' # "Mornin', Noon and Night" - 4:13 # "I Know You Love Me Baby" - 15:48 # "TV Mama" - 13:57 # " 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" ( Porter Grainger, Everett Robins) - 7:35

Personnel

- vocals *

, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison,

- trumpet * Pee Wee Crayton - guitar *Jimmy Robins - piano *Chuck Norris -

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*Washington Rucker -

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner Pablo Records albums Big Joe Turner albums Dizzy Gillespie albums Roy Eldridge albums Harry Edison albums Clark Terry albums Albums produced by Norman Granz 1975 albums