(1915-12-16)December 16, 1915 Palermo, California, U.S.
Died
May 30, 1987(1987-05-30) (aged 71) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres
Traditional jazz, Dixieland jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician, singer, bandleader
Instrument(s)
Trombone
Labels
Verve
Musical artist
Turk Murphy Lane in San Francisco
Melvin Edward Alton "Turk" Murphy (December 16, 1915 – May 30, 1987)[1] was an American trombonist and bandleader, who played traditional and Dixieland jazz.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 1781/2. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
Melvin Edward Alton "Turk" Murphy (December 16, 1915 – May 30, 1987) was an American trombonist and bandleader, who played traditional and Dixieland jazz...
his label to record "Mack the Knife", eventually persuading TurkMurphy to record. Murphy also suggested Armstrong to Avakian for the recording, and made...
Dixieland jazz nightclub owned by TurkMurphy (1915–1987) Live at Earthquake McGoon's, a 1961 album by TurkMurphy and Ernie Carson (1937–2012) Live at...
Goodyshoes, the smartest girl in the whole world!" Alligator King Bud Luckey TurkMurphy 1972 A King of alligators who challenged his seven sons to cheer him...
Clancy Hayes, clarinetist Bob Helm, trumpeter Bob Scobey, trombonist TurkMurphy, tubist/bassist Dick Lammi, and Watters himself. In the late 1930s, cornetist...
close to swing. Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, and trombonist TurkMurphy, adopted the repertoire of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis...
III (1937–2022) James Morrison (born 1962) Benny Morton (1907–1985) TurkMurphy (1915–1987) Christian Muthspiel (born 1962) Tricky Sam Nanton (1904–1946)...
Midgets Tommy Tutone Train Translator Tsunami Bomb The Tubes Tupac Shakur TurkMurphy Tuxedomoon Two Gallants Tycho Ty Segall The Union Trade The Units Until...
his Yerba Buena Jazz Band in San Francisco and extended by trombonist TurkMurphy. It started out as a backlash to the Chicago style, which is closer in...
on to work with the TurkMurphy Jazz Band and the Firehouse Five Plus Two. In 1979 Tyle played and recorded with the TurkMurphy Jazz Band in San Francisco...
Scobey, TurkMurphy, Wally Rose, and Clancy Hayes. He recorded little after the early 1960s, and his exact date of death is disputed. With TurkMurphy The...
Little Tenderness Tyree Glenn with Strings 25076 TurkMurphy and His Jazz Band at the Roundtable TurkMurphy and His Jazz Band 25077 Shy Cathy Carr 25078...
"Penny Candy Man", "Martian Beauty", "#7 The Alligator King", (with TurkMurphy) "Lovely Eleven Morning", "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Nine", and the...
as clarinetist George Lewis, cornetist Bill Davison, and trombonist TurkMurphy were hailed by conservative jazz critics as more authentic than the big...
taking an extended residency at San Francisco's 1018 Club. He played with TurkMurphy (1949–50), Bob Scobey, and Marty Marsala, then played mostly solo between...
assembled jam sessions with Bill Dart, Clancy Hayes, Bob Helm, Dick Lammi, TurkMurphy, and Wally Rose. In 1938, he formed a band that included Hayes, Helm...
saxophonist who also played several other instruments. He met Lu Watters and TurkMurphy in 1935 and began playing with them. Five years in the army were followed...
Francisco, where she often performed on solo piano, or with bandleader TurkMurphy. Chadbourne, Eugene. "Norma Teagarden | Biography & History". AllMusic...
"trad jazz" fan and said that he moved to San Francisco after seeing a TurkMurphy's Jazz Band album cover. He began playing the trombone at 15, and although...
Francisco with Lu Watters, Bob Scobey, TurkMurphy, and Mutt Carey; he recorded with Watters in 1942 and with Murphy multiple times between 1950 and 1966...
Henson) David Axlerod Sam Pottle The Alligator King Bud Luckey Don Hadley TurkMurphy and Bud Luckey. Later sung by Jerry Nelson and Richard Hunt Air Bip Bippadotta...
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