Editing Ike Turner (section)

=== Musical style ===
[[File:Ike Turner at 1997 Long Beach Blues Festival.jpg|thumb|274x274px|Ike Turner performing at the [[Long Beach Blues Festival]] in 1997]]
In his career, Turner originally worked in the style of 1950s R&B, or post-[[jump blues]]. His early influences included [[Amos Milburn]] and Louis Jordan, as well as country music artists such as [[Hank Williams]] Sr. and [[Merle Travis]].<ref name="Fowler-1998" /> Though primarily known as a guitarist, Turner began his career playing piano and personally considered it his main instrument.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=28}} In 1951, journalist Mike McGee compared him to jazz pianist [[Fats Waller]] and wrote: "Ike Turner is the hottest piano player in many a day."<ref>{{Cite news |last=McGee |first=Mike |date=April 15, 1951 |title=Will 'Plugs' Really Sell Any Ducats? - One Can Really Learn About 'Rocket 88' If One Time |pages=Section V 9 |work=The Commercial Appeal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-commercial-appeal-ike-turner-at-w-c/133217908/}}</ref>

Turner grew up playing [[boogie woogie]] piano, which he learned from blues pianist Pinetop Perkins.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=25-26}} He decided he was not meant to be a frontman when at twelve he was coerced into giving an impromptu piano recital in school. He found the experience terrifying and from then on preferred not to be the focus of attention, but rather to be in the background controlling the show. He considered himself an organizer rather than a performer.{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=28-29}} Musician [[Donald Fagen]] noted: "[T]alented as he was, there wasn't anything really supernatural about Ike's skills as a musician... What Ike excelled at was leadership: conceptualization, organization, and execution."<ref name="Fagen-12-17-2007">{{cite web|last=Fagen|first=Donald|title=The Devil and Ike Turner: Parsing his hits|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/obit/2007/12/the_devil_and_ike_turner.html|work=Slate Obituary, Dec. 17, 2007|date=December 17, 2007|access-date=November 8, 2011}}</ref>

Turner's guitar style is distinguished by heavy use of the [[whammy bar]] to achieve a strong [[reverb]]-soaked [[vibrato]], string bending, [[hammer-on]]s and [[Tuplet|triplets]] in his blues phrasing.<ref name=Rubin-12-09>{{cite journal|last=Rubin |first=Dave |title=Ike Turner: The Soulful Style of the Electric Blues/R&B Guitarist |journal=Premier Guitar |date=December 2009 |page=88 |url=http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/Dec/Ike_Turner_The_Soulful_Style_of_the_Electric_Blues_R_B_Guitarist.aspx |access-date=October 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328115233/http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2009/Dec/Ike_Turner_The_Soulful_Style_of_the_Electric_Blues_R_B_Guitarist.aspx |archive-date=March 28, 2010}}</ref> Turner was an early adopter of the [[Fender Stratocaster]] electric guitar, buying one from O.K. Houk's Piano Co. store in Memphis the year of its release in 1954.<ref name=Lord-2011-04-06>{{cite web|last=Lord |first=Derreck |title=Ike Turner, Here and Now |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=79208 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116113735/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=79208 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |work=all about jazz, 2011-04-06 |publisher=All About Jazz /Derreck Lord |access-date=November 6, 2011 }}</ref> Unaware that the guitar's [[tremolo arm]] could be used to subtle effect, Turner used it to play screaming, swooping and diving solos that predated artists such as [[Jimi Hendrix]] and [[Jeff Beck]] by a decade.<ref name="Ike Turner 1931-2007">{{cite web|title=Ike Turner 1931–2007 |url=http://www.fender.com/en-GB/news/index.php/?display_article=226 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116143746/https://fender.com/en-GB/news/index.php/?display_article=226 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |work=Fender News |publisher=Fender Inc. |access-date=October 5, 2011 }}</ref> In ''The Stratocaster Chronicles'', Tom Wheeler wrote that Turner's "inventive style is a classic example of an artist discovering the Stratocaster, adapting to its features and fashioning something remarkable."<ref name=Wheeler-2004>{{cite book|last=Wheeler|first=Tom|title=The Stratocaster Chronicles|year=2004|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=978-0-634-05678-9}}</ref> Turner himself said of his tremolo technique: "I thought it was to make the guitar scream—people got so excited when I used that thing."<ref name="Ike Turner 1931-2007" /> Dave Rubin wrote in ''[[Premier Guitar]]'' magazine: "All those years of playing piano and arranging taught him a considerable amount about harmony, as he could certainly navigate I-IV-V chord changes. Ike modestly terms what he does on the guitar as 'tricks', but make no mistake, he attacked his axe with the conviction of a man who knew precisely what he wanted to hear come out of it."<ref name=Rubin-12-09 />

Reviewing Turner's 1973 album ''[[Bad Dreams (Ike Turner album)|Bad Dreams]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] wrote: "After twenty years of raking it in from the shadows, he's finally figured out a way of applying his basically comic [[Bass-baritone|bass/baritone]] to rock and roll. Studio-psychedelic [[New Orleans rhythm and blues|New Orleans]], echoes of [[the Band]] and [[Dr. John]], some brilliant minor r&b mixed in with the dumb stuff. My God—at the moment he's more interesting than Tina."<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=0-89919-026-X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: T|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=T&bk=70|access-date=March 16, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies}}</ref>