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| 1. | At a Georgia Camp Meeting
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| 2. | Irish Black Bottom
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| 3. | Original Jelly Roll Blues
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| 4. | Smoky Mokes
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| 5. | Maple Leaf Rag
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| 6. | Memphis Blues
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| 7. | Black and White Rag
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| 8. | Muskrat Ramble
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| 9. | Careless Love
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| 10. | Blues
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| 11. | The Girls Go Crazy About the Way I Walk
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| 12. | When I Move to the Sky
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| 13. | Ace in the Hole
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| 14. | Ory's Creole Trombone
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| 15. | Nobody's Fault But Mine
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| 16. | Down by the Riverside
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Jazz
Bunk Johnson - Trumpet, Vocals
Lu Watters - Cornet, Trumpet
Bill Dart - Drums
Bob Scobey - Cornet
Burt Bales - Piano
Clancy Hayes - Banjo, Drums, Vocals
Dick Lammi - Tuba
Ellis Horne - Clarinet
Pat Patton - Banjo
Sister Lotta Peavey - Vocals
Squire Girsback - Bass, Tuba
Turk Murphy - Trombone
Wally Rose - Piano
* David Robinson - Engineer
* David Stuart - Engineer
* Kirk Felton - Remixing
* Lester Koenig - Engineer
* Nesuhi Ertegun - Liner Notes
* Ralph J. Gleason - Liner Notes
Included on this historic CD are two rather significant sessions. Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band was a major force in launching the Dixieland revival, and their first eight recordings, from their initial session, lead off the disc. Featured are trumpeters Lu Watters and Bob Scobey, trombonist Turk Murphy and clarinetist Ellis Horne on such numbers as "Irish Black Bottom," "Maple Leaf Rag" and "Muskrat Ramble"; pianist Wally Rose's feature on "Black & White Rag" helped start a mini ragtime revival. The second half of the CD has one of legendary trumpeter Bunk Johnson's finest recordings. He is heard leading the wartime version of the Yerba Buena band (which still included Murphy and Horne, in addition to pianist Burt Bales), and Bunk rarely sounded stronger; he is also perfectly in tune for a change. Sister Lottie Peavey takes a fair number of gospel-oriented vocals; Clancy Hayes sings definitive versions of "Ace In the Hole" and "219 Blues," and Johnson himself vocalizes on "Down By the Riverside." But it is for Bunk's trumpet that the latter part of the CD is most notable.
---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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