Cousin Joe

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"Cousin Joe" Pleasant (birth name: Pleasant Joseph) (born December 20, 1907 died October 2, 1989) was a blues and jazz singer,(later famous for his 1940s recordings with clarinetist Sidney Bechet), who grew up in the fields of rural Louisiana.

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[edit] Autobiography

  • Cousin Joe : Blues from New Orleans / Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph and Harriet J. Ottenheimer. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987. xi, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-226-41198-2

[edit] Partial discography

  • Relaxin’ in New Orleans [sound recording] / Cousin Joe. New Orleans, LA : Great Southern Records, p1985. 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
  • Jumping at Jubilee [sound recording]. London : Sequel, [1995] Sequel NEM CD 749
  • Bostic, Earl, 1913-1965. Magic Bostic [sound recording] / Earl Bostic. Paris : Jazz Archives, [2003]
  • 1971 : Bad luck blues (Black & blue) with Jimmy Dawkins and Clarence Gatemouth Brown

[edit] Filmography

  • 2005 : DVD the blues of Cousin Joe live 29 august 1984 in New Orleans (Storyville films)

[edit] Reference

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