The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner

The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner
Studio album by Joe Turner, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry
Released	1975
Recorded	September 19, 1974 Los Angeles
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:33
Label	Pablo 2310-717
Producer	Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1975) Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974)

The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner is an album by vocalist Big Joe Turner with trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry, recorded in 1974 and released on the Pablo label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow 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."^[2]

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."^[3]

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."^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Turner except as indicated

1. "Mornin', Noon and Night" – 4:13
2. "I Know You Love Me Baby" – 15:48
3. "TV Mama" – 13:57
4. "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robins) – 7:35^[2]

Personnel

• Big Joe Turner – vocals
• Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Clark Terry – trumpet
• Pee Wee Crayton – guitar
• Jimmy Robins – piano
• Chuck Norris – bass
• Washington Rucker – drums^[6]

References

1. "Dizzy Gillespie discography". Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
2. Scott Yanow. "The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner – Harry "Sweets" Edison, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Big Joe Turner | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 663.
5. Deriso, Nick (April 30, 2008). "Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Harry Edison and Clark Terry – The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)". Something Else!. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
6. "The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner – Harry "Sweets" Edison, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Big Joe Turner | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 May 2021.