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Jazz. Instrument (s) Trumpet. 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.
Bunk Johnson (born December 27, 1889?, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.—died July 7, 1949, New Iberia, Louisiana) was an American jazz trumpeter, one of the first musicians to play jazz and a principal figure of the 1940s traditional jazz revival.
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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 · March 28, 2020. Profiles In Jazz. Bunk Johnson (Stanford Riverwalk Jazz Collection) There have long been two extreme schools of thought about trumpeter Bunk Johnson. His most partisan fans thought of him not only as a genius, but the last important living link to the beginnings of what they considered “real 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 ...
Jan 13, 2011 · Bunk Johnson Musician - All About Jazz. Home » Jazz Musicians » Bunk Johnson. Claim Page. Bunk Johnson. Biography. News. A jazz legend from before the music existed in name; separating the truth from the myth in the life of trumpeter Bunk Johnson has never been simple.
