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| 1. | Gloryland
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| 2. | Just a Little While to Stay
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| 3. | Just a Closer Walk With Thee
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| 4. | Didn't He Ramble
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| 5. | Tell Me Your Dream
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| 6. | My Maryland
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| 7. | St. Louis Blues
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| 8. | Bye & Bye
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| 9. | Nearer My God to Thee
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| 10. | When the Saints Go Marching In
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| 11. | Happy Birthday
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| 12. | Runnin' Wild
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| 13. | Margie
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| 14. | Lonesome Road
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| 15. | Swanee River
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| 16. | Kentucky Home
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| 17. | Milneburg Joys
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| 18. | 827 Blues
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| 19. | All the Whores
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| 20. | The Sheik of Araby
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Jazz
Bunk Johnson - Trumpet
Adolphe Alexander - Horn (Baritone)
Alcide Pavageau - Bass (Upright)
Baby Dodds - Drums, Drums (Snare)
George Lewis - Clarinet
Jim Robinson - Trombone
Joe Clark - Bass Horn
Laurence Marrero - Banjo, Drums (Bass)
Louis "Kid Shots" Madison - Trumpet
* Alden Ashforth - Sound Concepts
* Barry Martyn - Producer
* George H. Buck, Jr. - Liner Notes
* Jack Towers - Transfer Engineer
This CD starts off with a potentially very interesting session, the first-ever recording of a New Orleans brass band. Bunk Johnson heads a group consisting of two trumpeters (the other is Kid Shots Madison), trombonist Jim Robinson, George Lewis on the eerie E flat clarinet, Isidore Barbarin on alto horn, the baritone horn of Adolphe Alexander, Joe Clark on bass horn, Baby Dodds on snare drum, and Lawrence Marrero on bass drum. Unfortunately, the band (particularly Lewis) is generally out of tune, which -- despite the power and sincerity of the music -- reduces the effectiveness of the recording. The second half of the disc has more conventional performances by Bunk, Lewis, and Robinson in a spirited New Orleans jazz sextet, playing numbers such as "Runnin' Wild," "Kentucky Home," and "The Sheik of Araby."
--- 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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