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Dec 7, 2019 · It was 74 years ago when Joe McQueen came to Ogden from California for a two-week performance and he never left. The jazz legend passed away on Saturday afternoon at the age of 100, according to ...
Dec 8, 2019 · McQueen died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019 at 100 years old. OGDEN — Joe McQueen, Utah’s legendary saxophonist who talked tempo changes with Charlie Parker, tried to get Count Basie to quit smoking and told Louis Armstrong that he didn’t like his style, died Saturday morning. He was 100 years old.
Feb 14, 2009 · Joe McQueen has been a professional jazz musician for over seventy years, turning 'Pro' at the tender age of sixteen. He was introduced to the saxophone a few years earlier by his cousin, Herschel Evans, who played in Count Basie's band in the mid-1930s. Born in 1919 in Dallas, Texas, Joe was raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he played tuba ...
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Jan 4, 2017 · This mural that shows the different stages in life of Ogden musician Joe McQueen is located at 443 27th Street in Ogden. The mural will be officially unveiled Friday as part of the First Friday ...
Feb 4, 2006 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2006 SACD release of "Ten At 86" on Discogs.
Dec 23, 2019 · Hundreds of people filled the The Monarch in Ogden on Saturday to sing the praises of Joe McQueen, who died at the age of 100 on Dec. 7 following a struggle with cancer. Local musicians, a church choir and surviving members of the Joe McQueen Quartet were among those in attendance, the Standard-Examiner in Ogden reported. They remembered him as ...
Apr 17, 2023 · Ogden, UT—After a pause, since legendary jazz saxophonist Joe McQueen’s death at the age 100 in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Joe McQueen Quartet is back for their annual Joe McQueen Day celebration. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, at Lighthouse Lounge, in Ogden, Utah—the city where McQueen lived and played ...
