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Joe McQueen
7+ albums
saxophonejazz
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Joe McQueen (May 30, 1919 – December 7, 2019) was an American jazz saxophonist from Ogden, Utah. McQueen was born in Ponder, Texas, and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma. In his teens he started playing saxophone in part because of his cousin, Herschel Evans, a saxophonist with Count Basie during the 1930s. McQueen toured with bands throughout the United States. While passing through Ogden, Utah, the leader of the band McQueen was in at the time took the group's money, later losing it while gambling on the way to Las Vegas. McQueen and wife Thelma decided to remain in Ogden where he lived for the rest of his life. He performed with jazz musicians when they stopped in Utah, such as Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Paul Gonsalves, Lester Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Ray Charles. McQueen died on the morning of December 7, 2019, at the age of 100. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.