Melvin Edward Alton "Turk" Murphy (December 16, 1915 – May 30, 1987) was an American trombonist and bandleader, who played traditional and Dixieland jazz...
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1985), American football player Turk Murphy (Melvin Edward Alton Murphy, 1915–1987), trombonist and bandleader Turk (rapper) (Tab Virgil Jr., born 1981)...
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his label to record "Mack the Knife", eventually persuading Turk Murphy to record. Murphy also suggested Armstrong to Avakian for the recording, and made...
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Clancy Hayes, clarinetist Bob Helm, trumpeter Bob Scobey, trombonist Turk Murphy, tubist/bassist Dick Lammi, and Watters himself. In the late 1930s, cornetist...
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Dixieland jazz nightclub owned by Turk Murphy (1915–1987) Live at Earthquake McGoon's, a 1961 album by Turk Murphy and Ernie Carson (1937–2012) Live at...
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George Lewis & Turk Murphy at Newport is a live album by George Lewis' Sextet and Turk Murphy's Septet recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 and...
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Orchestra, with Hot Lips Page providing vocals (1941)Josh White (1944) Turk Murphy (1951) Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band 1953 (1953)...
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Tatum 1944 Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949 Al Jolson 1953 Turk Murphy 1953 Frankie Laine 1954 Cal Tjader 1957 Toshiko Akiyoshi Many Sides of...
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close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist Turk Murphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis...
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