Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid, Joe Turner, Ram Ramirez. Excerpt: Big Joe Duskin Big Joe Duskin (February 10, 1921 May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist . He is best known for his debut album, Cincinnati Stomp (1978), and the tracks "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a Girl Named Martha." Biography Born Joseph L. Duskin in Birmingham, Alabama, by the age of seven he had started playing piano . He played in church, accompanying his preacher father, the Rev. Perry Duskin. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Duskin was raised near to the Union Terminal train station where his father worked. On his local radio station, WLW, Duskin heard his hero Fats Waller play. He was also inspired to play in a boogie-woogie style by Pete Johnson 's, "627 Stomp." In his younger days Duskin performed in clubs in Cincinnati and across the river in Newport, Kentucky. While serving in the US Army in World War II, he continued to play and, in entertaining the US forces, met his idols Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis . After his military service ended, Duskin's father made him promise to stop playing while the elder Duskin was still alive. However, Rev. Duskin lived to the age of 105, and Joe found alternative employment as a police officer and a postal worker . Therefore Duskin, effectively in the middle of his career, never played a keyboard for sixteen years. With the encouragement of a blues historian, Steven C. Tracy, by the early 1970s Duskin had began playing the piano at festivals in the US and across Europe . By 1978, and with the reputation for his concert playing now growing, his first recording, Cincinnati Stomp, was released on Arhoolie Records . The album ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jazz-Blues Pianists: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid. To get started finding Jazz-Blues Pianists: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Jazz-Blues Pianists: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid, Joe Turner, Ram Ramirez. Excerpt: Big Joe Duskin Big Joe Duskin (February 10, 1921 May 6, 2007) was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist . He is best known for his debut album, Cincinnati Stomp (1978), and the tracks "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a Girl Named Martha." Biography Born Joseph L. Duskin in Birmingham, Alabama, by the age of seven he had started playing piano . He played in church, accompanying his preacher father, the Rev. Perry Duskin. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Duskin was raised near to the Union Terminal train station where his father worked. On his local radio station, WLW, Duskin heard his hero Fats Waller play. He was also inspired to play in a boogie-woogie style by Pete Johnson 's, "627 Stomp." In his younger days Duskin performed in clubs in Cincinnati and across the river in Newport, Kentucky. While serving in the US Army in World War II, he continued to play and, in entertaining the US forces, met his idols Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis . After his military service ended, Duskin's father made him promise to stop playing while the elder Duskin was still alive. However, Rev. Duskin lived to the age of 105, and Joe found alternative employment as a police officer and a postal worker . Therefore Duskin, effectively in the middle of his career, never played a keyboard for sixteen years. With the encouragement of a blues historian, Steven C. Tracy, by the early 1970s Duskin had began playing the piano at festivals in the US and across Europe . By 1978, and with the reputation for his concert playing now growing, his first recording, Cincinnati Stomp, was released on Arhoolie Records . The album ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jazz-Blues Pianists: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid. To get started finding Jazz-Blues Pianists: Norah Jones, Ximena Sariana, Bobby Short, Big Joe Duskin, Pete Johnson, Speckled Red, Mose Allison, Ray Bryant, Bill Heid, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.