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Bunk Johnson. Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson ( Nueva Orleans, 27 de diciembre de 1879- Nueva Iberia, 7 de julio de 1949) fue un trompetista y cornetista estadounidense de jazz, una de las primeras figuras del género cuando empezó a configurarse en la Nueva Orleans de principios del siglo XX . En su autobiografía, Louis Armstrong afirmó ...
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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 on December 27 ...
Bunk Johnson 1947 Columbia Recording After several weeks of hearing how well the band sounded, Drob suggested to Bunk that it should be recorded. Bunk agreed and on three dates in December, 1947 the group assembled in the small Carnegie recital hall to record.
Discover Bunk Johnson [Columbia] by Bunk Johnson released in 1955. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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.
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.
28 de mar. de 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.”.
