"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 and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow, who grew up in the fields of rural Louisiana.
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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
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
Filmography
- 2005 : DVD the blues of Cousin Joe live 29 august 1984 in New Orleans (Storyville films)
