A1 Switchin' in the Kitchen 3:36
A2 Nobody in Mind 3:41
A3 Until the Real Thing Comes Along 3:26
A4 I Get the Blues When It Rains 2:55
A5 Rebecca 7:05

B1 When I Was Young 5:19
B2 Don't You Make Me High 2:55
B3 Time After Time 3:53
B4 Pennies From Heaven 4:15
B5 Here Comes Your Iceman 3:52 

Alto Saxophone – Jerome Richardson (tracks: A1 to B3, B5), Pete Brown (2) (tracks: B4)
Bass – Doug Watkins (tracks: A1 to B3, B5), Walter Page (tracks: B4)
Drums – Charlie Persip (tracks: A1 to B3, B5), Cliff Leeman (tracks: B4)
Guitar – Freddie Greene* (tracks: B4), Jim Hall (tracks: A1 to B3, B5)
Piano – Jimmy Jones (3) (tracks: A1 to B3, B5), Pete Johnson (tracks: B4)
Tenor Saxophone – Coleman Hawkins (tracks: A1 to B3, B5), Seldon Powell (tracks: B4)
Trombone – Lawrence Brown (tracks: B4), Vic Dickenson (tracks: A1 to B3, B5)
Trumpet – Ernie Royal (tracks: A1, B1 to B3, B5), Jimmy Nottingham (tracks: B4), Paul Ricard (tracks: A2 to A5)
Vocals – Big Joe Turner 

With the exception of one selection ("Pennies from Heaven") left over from his 1956 record The Boss of the Blue, the music on this album was all recorded in September 1959. Veteran blues singer Big Joe Turner returns to his roots, belting out blues and early standards while accompanied by an octet arranged by Ernie Wilkins. Among the key sidemen are the great tenor Coleman Hawkins, trombonist Vic Dickenson, trumpeter Paul Ricard and altoist Jerome Richardson; and the highlights include "Nobody in Mind," "Rebecca" and "Don't You Make Me High." An excellent outing for Turner, whose boisterous style would be largely unchanged over his half-century career. ---Scott Yanow, AllMusic Review

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1 	Life Ain't Easy 	6:45
2 	Plant Your Garden 	8:20
3 	So Long 	5:05
4 	For Growin" Up 	10:40
5 	Morning Glory 	3:00
6 	Kick The Front Door In 	6:17

Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Earl Palmer
Guitar – Thomas Gadson
Organ – Jimmy Robbins
Saxophone – Lee Allen
Trombone – Al Grey
Trumpet – Roy Eldridge
Vocals – Joe Turner

Big Joe Turner's Pablo recordings of 1974-84 tended to be loose and sometimes a bit sloppy (with some overlong performances) but they were always full of spirit. On this particular CD, Turner's classic singing is matched with a mostly all-star crew including trumpeter Roy Eldridge, trombonist Al Grey, tenor saxophonist Lee Allen, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Earl Palmer (along with guitarist Thomas Gadson and Jimmy Robins on piano and organ). Turner performs Woody Guthrie's "So Long" and five of his recent originals; Eldridge and Grey's occasional competitive solos uplift the music. ---Scott Yanow, AllMusic Review

Great Turner vocals, but the album is dominated by the Hammond organ playing of Jimmy Robins, who is a great blues shouter, as well. The tragedy of the album is that there are so many other sterling musicians who are only minimally heard. Only Roy Eldridge and Al Grey get some abbreviated featured work. Ray Brown's bass comes through at times. Lee Allen gets only the shortest solo on Kick the Front Door In. Lee was the great sax man on most of the New Orleans hits of the 50's. What a waste to have Joe Turner with a Hammond organ overpowering, rather than horn and brass from the greatest in the business. ---Neil White, Jr., amazon.com

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1. Roll'em Boy
2. New Goin' Away Blues
3. In The Evening
4. Corrine Corrina Boogie
5. Arbor Place Blues
6. Rock The Joint Boogie
7. John's And Louis' Blues
8. Jelly Jelly Blues
9. The L. A. Boogie Chase
10. (Sit Down) On Your Daddy's Knee
11. The Chicken And The Hawk Boogie
12. Low Down Dog

Recorded at Johnny Otis' studio in Los Angeles on May 22nd, 1978.

Axel´s first encounter with »The Boss of the Blues«, Kansas City shouter Big Joe Turner (voc). Axel (23) takes his way to the US to let his dreams come true to make music with the Blues shouter of the Boogie Woogie era, the original singer of the »big three« of Boogie piano, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson und Meade »Lux« Lewis.

For this album Axel Zwingenberger and Big Joe Turner received the »German Record Award« (later known as »Echo«) in 1979.

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01. Money First
02. Hide And Seek
03. Ive Got A Pocket Full Of Pencils
04. Rock Me Baby		play
05. Cherry Red
06. Texas Style		play
07. T.V.Mama
08. T'aint Nobodys Business
09. Morning Glory
10. Rock Me Baby (take 1) 

Big Joe Turner (vocals); 
Milt Buckner (piano); 
Jo Jones (drums);
Slam Stewart (bass).

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. Turner is backed by a particularly colorful and supportive trio comprised of pianist Milt Buckner (the master of block chords), bassist Slam Stewart (who takes a few of his trademark solos in which he sings along with his bowed bass) and veteran swing drummer Jo Jones. Turner was still in his prime at the time and, even if his material was not too adventurous, the music (which includes a few newer bluish originals plus such standbys as "Cherry Red" and "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do") is performed with enthusiasm and solid swing. ---Scott Yanow, allmusic.com

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01. Roll 'em Pete 
02. Goin' Away Blues 
03. Cherry Red 
04. It's all Right Baby 
05. Careless Love 
06. Piney Brown Blues 
07. Blues on Central Avenue 
08. Sun Risin' Blues 			play
09. I'm a Lovin' Man 
10. My Gal's a Jockey 
11. Sally Zu-Zazz-Blues 
12. New Oo-Wee Baby Blues (Wee Baby Blues) 
13. Hollywood Bed (Cherry Red Blues) 
14. Radar Blues 
15. Tell My Pretty Baby 
16. Wine-O-Baby Boogie 
17. Jumpin' at the Jubilee 
18. Still in the Dark 
19. Chains of Love 
20. The Chill Is On 			play

Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s.

It is a mark of his dominance as a singer that he won the Esquire magazine award for male vocalist in 1945, the Melody Maker award for best 'new' vocalist in 1956, and the British Jazz Journal award as top male singer in 1965. In 1977, Turner recorded "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" for Spivey Records, featuring Lloyd Glenn on piano. Turner's career stretched from the bar rooms of Kansas City in the 1920s (at the age of twelve when he performed with a pencilled moustache and his father's hat), on to the European jazz music festivals of the 1980s.

In 1983, only two years before his death, Turner was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. The same year saw the release on Mute Records of Blues Train, an album which paired Turner with Roomful of Blues. He died in Inglewood, California in November 1985, at the age of 74 of a heart attack, having suffered the earlier effects of arthritis, a stroke and diabetes. Big Joe Turner was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

The late The New York Times music critic Robert Palmer, said: "...his voice, pushing like a Count Basie solo, rich and grainy as a section of saxophones, which dominated the room with the sheer sumptuousness of its sound." In announcing Turner's death in their December 1985 edition, the British music magazine, NME, described Turner as "the grandfather of rock and roll."

Songwriter Dave Alvin wrote a song about an evening that he spent with Turner titled "Boss Of The Blues". It was on his 2009 release, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women. Alvin discussed the song in Issue 59 of The Blasters Newsletter.

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1. Crawdad Hole 
2. Red Sails In The Sunset 
3. Cocka-Doodle-Doo 
4. Jumpin' For Joe 
5. I Want A Little Girl 
6. Blues Train 
7. I Know You Love Me 
8. Last Night 
9. I Love The Way (My Baby Sings The Blues)

Personnel: 
Joe Turner (vocals); 
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (vocals, alto saxophone); 
Dr. John (piano). 
Roomful Of Blues: 
Ronnie Earl Horvath (guitar); 
Rich Lataille (alto saxophone); 
Greg Piccolo (tenor saxophone); 
Doug James (baritone saxophone); 
Bob Enos (trumpet); 
Porky Cohen (trombone); 
Al Copley (piano); 
Jimmy Wimpfheimer (bass); 
Preston Hubbard (acoustic & electric bass); 
John Rossi (drums). 

In their early days, Roomful of Blues recorded some seminal LPs for the Muse label, which were bought by 32 Jazz, and two of them are available on this two-disc set. Blues Train with Big Joe Turner and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson & Roomful of Blues are the recordings included, and they offer some of the very best, and certainly seminal, early-period work of the Rhode Island-based horn-fired blues/jazz band. Dr. John also helps out on the first recording, which features Turner's signature takes on "Crawdad Hole" and "I Want a Little Girl," while the sessions with alto saxophonist/vocalist Vinson serve up evergreens "He Was a Friend of Mine" and "Past Sixty Blues," among many others. This one is also out of print, but will surely come back. The music is too keen, vital, and precious to be off the market. Find it as best you can. --- Michael G. Nastos, allmusic.com

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01. I Got a Gal  2.59
02. It's the Shame Old Story 2.54
03. Rebecca 2.40
04. S. K. Blues (Part.2) 2.50
05. Cry Baby Blues 2.50
06. Blues on Central Avenue 2.35
07. Ice Man 2.53
08. Johnson and Turner Blues 2.58
09. Rocks in My Bed 3.12
10. I Got My Discharge Papers 2.39
11. Somebody's Got to Go 2.53
12. Watch That Jive 2.55
13. Chewed Up Grass 2.31
14. Doggin' the Blues 3.03
15. Little Bitty Gal's Blues 3.18
16. Goin' to Chicago Blues 2.58

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01. Cherry Red  3.26
02. Roll 'Em Pete  3.47
03. I Want A Little Girl  4.22 
04. Low Down Dog  3.47
05. Wee Baby Blues  7.21
06. You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)  4.16
07. How Long Blues   5.50
08. Morning Glories  2.15
09. St. Louise Blues  4.23
10. Piney Brown Blues  4.52

Frank Wess- Tenor Saxophone
Freddie Green- Guitar
Joe Newman- Trumpet
Seldon Powell- Tenor Saxophone
Lawrence Brown- Trombone
Big Joe Turner- Vocals
Walter Page- Bass
Jimmy Nottingham- Trumpet
Pete Johnson- Piano
Cliff Leeman- Drums
Pete Brown- Alto Saxophone

During an era when Big Joe Turner recordings were often surprise hits with rock & roll fans (particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll"), he occasionally recorded no-nonsense blues-oriented jazz dates too. This reissue album matched Turner for one of the last times with the veteran boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson and also includes a variety of top swing players: trumpeter Joe Newman, trombonist Lawrence Brown, altoist Pete Brown, tenor saxophonist Frank Wess, guitarist Freddie Green, bassist Walter Page, and drummer Cliff Leeman. It is not surprising, considering the number of Basie-ites on the date, that the band often sounds like a Count Basie combo. Turner is in top form on remakes of some of his early tunes (including "Cherry Red," "Roll 'Em Pete," and "Wee Baby Blues"), a few traditional blues, and a couple of swing standards. This music should appeal to many listeners. –Scott Yanow, allmusic.com

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