MSC HST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Big Joe Turner, Saxophone, Guitar Solo
Document Summary
Chuck berry: urban blues guitar style with country vocal, maybellene 1955. Guitar solo sounds like traditional blue solo. Little richard (1932)- pianist and singer: long tall sally (1956)- Buddy holly (1938-1959: the crickets, rock band instrumentation: drums, bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, double-tracking. Biggest segment of recording agencies in the us at the time were white. Shake rattle & roll : jessee stone (1901-1999), 1954. Made the song: big joe turner (1911-1985), 1954. Improve sax solo: bill haley and the comets came out and made the next recording, 1954. Comets from the country world (not very successful) to covering jump blues, much more popularity. Sweetened the style in sweet swing sense. Made it more appealing to white audience. He"s also aiming his version at radio play, wants to get the song on mainstream radio. His version sold way more units than big joe turner : slap bass- technique used by bill haley.
