p, 1910-1940 US
Musician
Joshua Altheimer (1910 – November 18, 1940) was an American pianist who is remembered for accompanying Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and others on influential blues recordings made in Chicago in the 1930s. He was described by Broonzy as "the best blues piano player I ever heard", and by blues historian Hugues Panassié as "the greatest blues pianist on records".Joshua Altheimer died in Chicago in November 1940 at the age of 30, the result of various ailments including pneumonia.