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| Last Testament |
| Bunk Johnson |
| első megjelenés éve: 1993 |
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| (1993)
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| 3.700 Ft
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| 1. | Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
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| 2. | Hilarity Rag
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| 3. | Some of These Days
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| 4. | The Entertainer
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| 5. | Out of Nowhere [Alternate Take]
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| 6. | You're Driving Me Crazy
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| 7. | Chloe
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| 8. | The Minstrel Man
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| 9. | Maria Elena
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| 10. | Kinklets
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| 11. | Out of Nowhere
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| 12. | Till We Meet Again
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| 13. | Chloe [Alternate Take]
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| 14. | Teasin' Rag
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Jazz
Bunk Johnson - Trumpet
Alphonse Steele - Drums
Danny Barker - Guitar
Don Kirkpatrick - Piano
Ed Cuffee - Trombone
Garvin Bushell - Clarinet
Wellman Braud - Bass
* Josie Carmen - Engineer
* Julie Chenevert - Design
* Paul Underwood - Engineer
* Robert G. Koester - Producer
Bunk Johnson had a rather unlikely career. Completely forgotten and out of music by the late '30s, he was given a new set of teeth and a trumpet and hailed as a legend. Johnson made an impressive comeback, but excessive drinking resulted in an erratic and short-lived career. Both overpraised by some and dismissed by others, Johnson was actually a fine player when he was at his best. His final recording, reissued on this CD along with two alternate takes, was arguably his best. Utilizing more modern players (trombonist Ed Cuffee, clarinetist Garvin Bushell, pianist Don Kirkpatrick, guitarist Danny Barker, bassist Wellman Braud, and drummer Alphonse Steele) than his usual New Orleans band, Johnson performed a wide variety of music, ranging from folk songs and swing standards (such as "Out of Nowhere" and "You're Driving Me Crazy") to some rags (most notably "The Entertainer"). Throughout, Johnson sounds at the top of his game, making this CD his definitive release.
--- 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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