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Joe Leandrew McQueen: Born May 30, 1919 Ponder, Texas, U.S. Died: December 7, 2019 (aged 100) Ogden, Utah, U.S. Genres: Jazz: Occupation(s) Musician: Instrument(s) Saxophone: Years active: 1930s–2019
Dec 8, 2019 · Joe McQueen, the dynamic yet humble jazz saxophonist who made Ogden his home for 74 years starting in the days when musicians like Count Basie and Charlie Parker would play in the northern...
Dec 7, 2019 · OGDEN — An Ogden legend died Saturday. Joe McQueen, pioneering jazz saxophonist and Northern Utah resident, died Saturday morning at the age of 100. Fellow jazz musician Brad Wheeler said...
Legendary saxophonist Joe McQueen is the musical godfather of Ogden's lively 25th Street. Hear his story and explore some of Ogden's (and Salt Lake City's) best nightlight and jazz clubs.
Jan 25, 2018 · Joe McQueen was a music scene icon in Utah with a repertoire that reached as far back as the early 1900's to today's modern jazz and his own original jazz songs. Music fans throughout Utah...
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Nov 9, 2014 · Joe McQueen is Utah's original jazz man. He arrived in Utah long before the basketball team. It was In December of 1945 to be exact. Joe was traveling with a Jazz band that'd been booked to...
May 29, 2019 · Scott G Winterton, Deseret News. By Lottie Elizabeth Johnson. SALT LAKE CITY — Wearing a mechanic’s coverall, Joe McQueen stepped into Brad Wheeler’s bar on Ogden’s 25th Street, refused to pay a cover charge and gave the blues musician booked that night a hard time. The musician was A.C. Reed — Buddy Guy’s former saxophonist — but ...
