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| 1. | Tiger Rag, Pt. 2
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| 2. | We Will Walk Through the Streets [2]
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| 3. | Sister Kate [2]
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| 4. | Lord, Lord, You Sure Are Good to Me [2]
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| 5. | Darktown Strutters' Ball [1]
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| 6. | When You Wore a Tulip
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| 7. | Careless Love, No. 3
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| 8. | There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes
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| 9. | My Life Will Be Sweeter Someday
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| 10. | Shake It and Break It [4]
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| 11. | Panama [3]
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| 12. | Alabama Bound
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| 13. | High Society
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| 14. | Ballin' the Jack [2]
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| 15. | When the Saints Go Marching In [2]
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Jazz
Bunk Johnson - Trumpet
Alcide Pavageau - Bass
Baby Dodds - Drums
George Lewis - Clarinet
Jim Robinson - Trombone
Laurence Marrero - Banjo
Myrtle Jones - Vocals
Sidney Brown - Tuba
* Alden Ashforth - Digital Transfers
* Barry Martyn - Producer
* George H. Buck, Jr. - Liner Notes
* Jack Towers - Analog Transfer
Trumpeter Bunk Johnson recorded extensively with his band of New Orleanians during 1944-45, including multiple performances of some of their selections. The American Music label, in their series of Bunk CDs, have straightened out the music to an extent, although some alternate takes have still only come out on sets by Japanese companies and the performances have not been reissued in strict chronological order. This CD has 15 selections from four sessions that took place within a five-day period. Johnson is joined by drummer Baby Dodds and the nucleus of what would six years later be the George Lewis band (Lewis on clarinet, trombonist Jim Robinson, banjoist Lawrence Marrero and bassist Alcide Pavageau). In general, Bunk sounds fairly strong and, although Lewis is sometimes out of tune, the joy of the ensemble oriented music overrides any occasional technical deficiencies. Myrtle Jones helps out with a vocal on "My Life Will Be Sweeter Someday." Among the better selections are "We Will Walk Through the Streets of the City," a previously unreleased version of "Sister Kate," "There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes," "Panama" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Bunk Johnson
Active Decades: '10s, '20s, '30s and '40s
Born: Dec 27, 1889 in New Orleans, LA
Died: Jul 07, 1949 in New Orleans, LA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Dixieland, Classic Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, New Orleans Brass Bands
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.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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