TURNER, JOE

TURNER, JOE. Jazz pianist (3 November 1907 in Baltimore, Maryland). He studied piano when he was five years old with his mother; his early style development was influenced by his listening to piano rolls. About 1923 he settled in New York; thereafter he played piano in nightclubs in the Harlem community and with various groups, including Hilton Jefferson , June Clark , Benny Carter (1929), and Louis Armstrong (1930), among others. During the 1930s he toured widely with...