1941

LONESOME GRAVEYARD * JOE TURNER WITH ART TATUM AND HIS BAND * BRUNSWICK 03462 * UK

Recorded New York June 13th 1941, with Joe Thomas, trumpet; Edmond Hall, clarinet; Art Tatum, piano; Oscar Moore, guitar; bass and Yank Porter on drums. The session produced four sides, the above, Lucille, Rock Me, Mama and Corinne Corinna;  was history made that day or what. Of course there were the other more talked about histories the ones orchestrated for us by the legislators; as, also on June 12th 1941, Germany attacked Russia  in Operation Barbarossa. On that dread day Adolf  Hitler sent 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia and consequently Russia entered the war.

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