Monkey Joe

Monkey Joe
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Styles: Country Blues, Piano Blues, Prewar Blues
Biography: The amount of real information known about Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman, who recorded extensively in the 1930s for Lester Melrose in Chicago and who was still playing clubs in the Windy City in the 1960s and 1970s, is astonishingly small. He was born sometime around or before 1906, probably in Mississippi, ...Read full biography
Monkey Joe Vol. 2 (1939-1940) inc. Roosevelt Scott
Released: 1996
Label: The Orchard
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The two principals on this CD, singer-pianist Monkey Joe (whose real name was Jesse Coleman) and vocalist Roosevelt Scott are completely forgotten today beyond their recordings. Monkey Joe was active in ...Read full review
Monkey Joe Vol. 1 (1935-1939)
Released: 1996
Label: The Orchard
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Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman's first 26 extant sides, two accompanying Lulu Scott but otherwise all him, including the singing. Coleman's voice is a kind of high tenor, very distinctive and expressive, while ...Read full review
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