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Bunk Johnson. Willie Gary " Bunk " Johnson (December 27, 1879 – July 7, 1949) [1] was an American prominent jazz trumpeter in New Orleans. Johnson gave the year of his birth as 1879, although there is speculation that he may have been younger by as much as a decade. Johnson stated on his 1937 application for Social Security that he was born ...
Bunk Johnson, American jazz trumpeter, one of the first musicians to play jazz and a principal figure of the 1940s traditional jazz revival. He played largely in his middle register, with a rich tone and clean, precise attack. He reflected both ragtime phrasing and more advanced concepts of melody and expression.
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New Iberia, LA 7/7/49. Willie ‘Bunk’ Johnson was one of the most controversial, and divisive, musicians in jazz history. Even today, few are lukewarm on the subject of Bunk’s musical ability, his biographical details and his personality. All agree, however, that he was the central figure of the New Orleans Revival of the 1940s.
Bunk Johnson once claimed he toured England with a circus led by a famous Russian strongman and made the sour-faced Queen Victoria laugh with his parlor tricks. He insisted that he’d played in a band led by the mythic New Orleans trumpeter Buddy Bolden in the 1890s. History tells a different story. No one fitting Bunk’s description ever ...
Mar 28, 2020 · George Lewis and Bunk Johnson, Stuyvesant Casino, New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946 (William P. Gottlieb Collection) Despite the turmoil, on June 3, 1946, Bunk Johnson was in excellent form on a notable trio session with pianist Don Ewell and drummer Alphonse Steele. After some months back in New Iberia, in 1946, Johnson returned to the North.
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Nov 25, 2022 · Portrait of Bunk Johnson. Most likely born in 1887, jazz trumpeter Willie “Bunk” Johnson came of age during the first decade of the twentieth century, when the music that came to be called jazz was just beginning to emerge in New Orleans. He is, however, primarily remembered today as the figurehead of the traditional New Orleans jazz ...
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 ...
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