Joe Sullivan
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Joseph Michael (Joe) Sullivan (November 04, 1906, Chicago - October 13, 1971, San Francisco) was an american jazz pianist.
He was the ninth child of Irish immigrant parents.
Sullivan graduated from the Chicago Conservatory and was an important contributor to the Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s.
Sullivan's recording career began late in 1927 when he joined "McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans". Other musicians included Jimmy McPartland, Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Jim Lanigan and Gene Krupa.
In 1933 he joined Bing Crosby as his accompanist, recording and making many radio broadcasts.
After a two years tuberculosis, he briefly rejoined Bing Crosby in 1938 and the Bob Crosby Orchestra in 1939.
By the 1950s he was largely forgotten, playing solo in San Francisco. Marital difficulties and excessive drinking caused Sullivan to become increasingly unreliable unable to keep a steady job, either as band member or soloist.
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