Jesse "Monkey Joe" Coleman (January 26, 1906 - November 16, 1967)[1] was an American country blues pianist and singer, who recorded sporadically from the 1930s into the 1970s.
Late in the 1930s he worked as a session musician for Lester Melrose, and recorded under his own name with Charlie McCoy, Fred Williams, Big Bill Broonzy, and Buster Bennett as backing musicians.
Coleman also appears to have worked under several other names, such as "Jack Newman" at Vocalion Records and "George Jefferson" as an accompanist on recordings for Lulu Scott.
He worked again with Little Brother Montgomery in the 1970s on an album entitled Crescent City Blues.
[4] Document Records released a two-volume CD set of Monkey Joe's works in 1996.