Bunk Johnson
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Biography
[Edit]Due to the difference of opinion between his followers (who claimed he was a brilliant stylist) and his detractors (who felt that his playing was worthless), Bunk Johnson was a controversial figure in the mid-'40s, when he made a most unlikely comeback. The truth is somewhere in between.
Bunk Johnson, who tended to exaggerate, claimed that he was born in 1879 and that he played with Buddy Bolden in New Orleans, but it was discovered that he was actually a decade younger. He did have a pretty tone and, although not an influence on Louis Armstrong (as he often stated), he was a major player in New Orleans starting around 1910 when he joined the Eagle Band. Johnson was active in the South until the early '30s, but did not record during that era. Discovered in the latter part of the decade by Bill Russell and Fred Ramsey, he was profiled in the 1939 book Jazzmen. A collection was taken up to get Johnson new teeth and a horn. In 1942, he privately recorded in New Orleans, and the next year he was in San Francisco playing with the wartime edition of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. An alcoholic, Johnson's playing tended to be erratic, and when Sidney Bechet recruited him for a band in 1945, he essentially drank himself out of the group. In 1946, Bunk Johnson led a group that included the nucleus of the ensemble George Lewis would make famous a few years later, but Johnson disliked the playing of the primitive New Orleans musicians. He was more comfortable the following year heading a unit filled with skilled swing players, and his final album (Columbia's The Last Testament of a Great Jazzman) was one of his best recordings. In 1948, the trumpeter (who was only 59 but seemed much older) returned to Louisiana and retired. Many of Bunk Johnson's better recordings have been reissued on CD by Good Time Jazz and American Music.
Title: New Oreans Legends
Artist: Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory And His Creole Jazz Band, His Band
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Nocturne 3 - Bunk & Bechet In Boston
Artist: Sidney Bechet, Ray Parker, Bunk Johnson, George Thompson, Pops Foster, Freddie Moore
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Nocturne 2 - Bunk & Bechet In Boston
Artist: Sidney Bechet, Ray Parker, Bunk Johnson, George Thompson, Pops Foster
Genre: Jazz
Title: New York Town Hall 1947 (Live)
Artist: Leadbelly, Bunk Johnson
Genre: Blues, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Collections
Title: The Very Best of Dixieland Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950)
Genre: Jazz
Title: L.A. Noire - Jazz Inspired By The Video Game
Genre: Jazz
Title: V-Disc Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best of the Dixieland Bands Vol 3
Genre: Jazz
Title: Early Jazz Ballroom Party Vol2
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best Time in Jazz Vol 4
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Jazz Grand Reserve
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Decade 1939-1949
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best of Jazz Piano and Trumpet
Genre: Jazz
Title: New Orleans Jazz Classics
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Party in New Orleans
Genre: Kids
Title: A New Orleans Mardi Gras, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: W W II Era Classics, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Mardi Gras Party!
Genre: World Music
Title: Pure Gold - Greatest Dixieland Jazz, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: An Introduction to American Music
Genre: Jazz
Title: Dixieland / New Orleans Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best Time in Jazz Vol 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Rare Cuts - Well Done, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best Time in Jazz Vol 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Legends of Jazz, Vol. 5
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gospel Vol. 4: Sisters & Divas 1943 - 1951 CD1
Genre: Gospel
Title: Mega Gospel (CD2)
Genre: Gospel
Title: TSF 100% Jazz (Vol. 1: Jazz In The City) (CD1)
Genre: Jazz