| LC control no. | n 86065474 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Duskin, Big Joe, 1921-2007 |
| Variant(s) | Duskin, Joe, 1921-2007 Duskin, Joseph L., 1921-2007 |
| Other standard no. | Q858962 0000000114368840 3951877 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1921-02-10 |
| Death date | 2007-05-06 |
| Place of birth | Birmingham (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Cincinnati (Ohio) |
| Field of activity | Blues (Music) Singing |
| Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Singers Pianists |
| Found in | His Cincinnati stomp [SR] p1979: label (Big Joe Duskin, vocals and piano) container (born 1921 in Birmingham, Ala.) Cincinnati post article, May 8, 2007 (d. May 6, 2007) Guardian unlimited WWW site, June 19, 2007 (Joseph L. "Big Joe" Duskin; born February 10, 1921, Birmingham, Ala.; died May 6, 2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio; blues and boogie musician) Wikipedia, viewed September 15, 2023: Big Joe Duskin page (Joseph L. "Big Joe" Duskin, February 10, 1921-May 6, 2007, was an American blues and boogie-woogie pianist; he is best known for his debut album, Cincinnati Stomp (1978), and the tracks "Well, Well Baby" and "I Met a Girl Named Martha; his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and Duskin was raised near the Union Terminal train station, where his father worked; in his younger days Duskin performed in clubs in Cincinnati and across the river in Newport, Kentucky; while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, he continued to play; by the early 1970s Duskin had begun playing the piano at festivals in the U.S. and across Europe; by 1978, and with the reputation for his concert playing now growing, his first recording, Cincinnati Stomp, was released on Arhoolie Records) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Duskin> |
| Associated language | eng |
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