Houston, Joe (Joseph Abraham)

Houston, Joe (Joseph Abraham) 12 July 1927; Austin, TX Vocalist/tenor saxophonist. He first played alto saxophone and joined the Sam Houston College marching band when he was fifteen years old. Later in his teens he worked with Ray Charles in Orlando, Florida; toured with Gatemouth Moore for five months, leaving the tour in New Orleans, where he pawned his alto saxophone for fare to Houston, Texas, to join Amos Milburn on tenor saxophone for nine months of one-nighters. He then joined King…