VA - New Orleans Revival 1940 - 1954 (2006)

VA - New Orleans Revival 1940 - 1954
MP3 320 Kbps | 348 MB | 2 CD
Frémeaux & Associés 2006

CD 1
01. With George & Sidney Bechet
02. Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band
03. Bunk Johnson Superior Band
04. George Lewis and His New Orleans Stompers
05. Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band
06. With 'Kid Shots' & George Lewis
07. With 'Kid Shots' & George Lewis
08. Bunk Johnson's Band
09. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
10. Wooden Joe's New Orleans Band
11. Wooden Joe's New Orleans Band
12. 'Bunk' Johnson, Sidney Bechet and their orchestra
13. Bunk's Brass Band
14. George Lewis Trio
15. The Original Zenith Brass Band
16. With Bunk Johnson
17. Louis Armstrong and His Dixieland Six
18. 'Kid' Ory and his Creole Jazz Band
19. Mutt Carey and his New Yorkers
20. Mutt Carey and his New Yorkers
21. With Albert Nicholson
22. With Punch Miller

CD 2
01. Bunk Johnson Last Testament
02. with Herb Morand
03. George Lewis Jam Session
04. Paul Barbarin and his N.O. Band
05. With Emile Barnes
06. Eureka Brass Band
07. The Louisiana Joymakers
08. Kid Thomas and his Algiers Stompers
09. Oscar Celestin's Tuxedo Jazz Band
10. Kid Clayton's Happy Pals
11. With Emile Barnes
12. With Percy Humphrey
13. Freddie Kohlman and his Band
14. George Lewis and his Ragtime Band
15. Jack Delaney and his N.O. Jazz Babies
16. Lizzie Miles w George Lewis & his Ragtime Band
17. George Lewis & his Ragtime Band
18. Kid Ory & his Creole Jazz Band
19. George Lewis Band
20. George Lewis Band
21. Oscar Celestin and his Tuxedo Jazz Band

CD 1 : Part1 | Part2

CD 2 : Part1 | Part2


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Bunk Johnson

William Gary (Bunk) Johnson 1889-1949

Bunk Johnson (1945) photo Lisette Model

Bunk Johnson Superior Och 1910

BUNK JOHNSON OBITUARY

After his death on july 7th 1949 there was an obituary published in The New York Times. It is reproduced here.

BUNK JOHNSON, 69, TRUMPET PLAYER

Jazz Stylist Who Began in New Orleans Dies --- Featured at 2 Town Hall Concerts

William Gary (Bunk) Johnson, noted Negro trumpet player, died on Thursday in his home in New Iberia, La., according to word received here last night by friends. He would have been 70 years old on Sept. 24.
Bunk Johnson was a legendary figure In jazz. He started playing the French horn as a schoolboy in New Orleans, where his mother, Theresa, ran a Creole lunch room. He played first with Adam Oliviter's band. The other players followed the score, hut Bunk was unable to read, and he soon switched to Buddy Bolden's band, where it was all improvisation and ear. In those days the competition between bands was so keen that during Mardi Gras and parades, they would drown each other out. Bunk was considered the originator of the New Orleans style of jazz trumpet playing.
He played continuously except for two interludes -- the Spanish-American and the first World Wars -- in both of which he served as an Army bandmaster overseas. Then, in 1931, he lost his teeth. He took to working in the rice fields and doing other odd jobs. Shortly before the outbreak of the recent war he was "rediscovered" by William Russell, who arranged to provide him with a set of store teeth. Bunk began again as a trumpet .player and achieved greater fame than the first time.
He starred in a jazz concert in San Francisco, and then came to New York, where he made a series of records with his band tor Victor, Decca and other leading record firms. In 1945, at the age of 65, he was band leader at the Stuyvesant Casino, Second Avenue and Ninth Street. He was lionized by the younger generation of jazz enthusiasts, and articles about him appeared in The New Yorker, Collier's and other publications.
In 1946 Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band were the featured principals of a jazz concert at the Town Hall here. He played his favorites, A New Orleans Street Parade" and "Maryland, My Maryland." In 1947 he was again featured at Town Hall, under the auspices of the New York Jazz Club.
He was the teacher of Louis Armstrong, trumpet virtuoso.
Surviving is his widow, Maude. They had twelve children, eleven of whom were living in 1945, and ten grandchildren.

(The New York Times, july 1949)

photo : Bunk Johnson Old New Orleans Basin Street 1949

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Bunk Johnson - The Birth Of Jazz 1942-1947

Recorded 1942-1949

01 - Dusty Rag
02 - Moose March
03 - Arkansas Blues
04 - Down By The Riverside
05 - Low Down Blues
06 - Maryland,My Maryland - take B
07 - Alexander's Ragtime Band - take B
08 - Tishomingo Blues - take A
09 - You Always Hurt The One You Love - take B
10 - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - take 2
11 - A Closer Walk With Thee - take 1
12 - Snag It - take 1
13 - One Sweet Letter From You - take 2
14 - When The Saints Go Marching In
15 - High Society
16 - Darktown Strutters' Ball
17 - Franklin Street Blues
18 - I Can't Escape From You-V-Disc
19- Snag It-V-Disc
20 - Maryland,My Maryland - take A
21 - Alexander's Ragtime Band - take A
22 - Tishomingo Blues - take B
23 - You Always Hurt The One You Love - take A
24 - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - take 1
25 - A Closer Walk With Thee - take 2
26 - Snag It - take 3
27 - One Sweet Letter From You - take 1
28 - Just A While To Stay Here(Bunk Johnson Brass Band)
29 - Lord Let Me In The Lifeboat(w Sidney Bechet)
30 - Lord You've Been Too Good To Me
31 - One Sweet Letter From You
32 - When The Saints Go Marching In
33 - In The Gloaming
34 - Where Could I Go(w Sister Ernestine Washington)
35 - Kinklets
36 - Some Of These Days
37 - Milenberg Joys

Bunk Johnson - Birth Of Jazz Recorded 1942-1947
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part 1 | part 2

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01 - Nobody's Fault But Mine
02 - When I Move To the Sky
03 - Careless Love
04 - Down By the Riverside

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Bunk Johnson Superior Jazz Band From Storyville, New Orleans 1942

Bunk Johnson Superior Jazz Band From Storyville, New Orleans 1942
Label - OJS/ZYX 2006
New Orleans Traditional Jazz
mp3 @ 320 | 77,7 mb | Cover

01. Storyville Blues Bunk Johnson (3:12)
02. Bunk's Blues Bunk Johnson (2:46)
03. Down by the Riverside Traditional (3:00)
04. Moose March Bunk Johnson (3:25)
05. Ballin' the Jack James Henry Burris, Chris Smith (3:07)
06. Panama William Tyers (2:58)
07. Weary Blues Artie Matthews (2:45)
08. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor Traditional (3:25)
09. Yes, Lord I'm Crippled Traditional (2:51)
10. Bunk Johnson Talking Records Bunk Johnson (9:26)
Total time - 36:35

Rec. June 11, 1942

Personnel:
George Lewis (Clarinet), Bunk Johnson (Trumpet), Jim Robinson (Trombone), Laurence Marrero (Banjo), Austin Young (Bass), Ernest Rogers (Drums), Walter Decou (Piano)

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This CD reissues the first recordings by the legendary Bunk Johnson. Cut in New Orleans on primitive acetates, the trumpeter is teamed with trombonist Jim Robinson and clarinetist George Lewis (both of whom would be in his regular band soon), plus a four-piece rhythm section, for nine numbers. Bunk's playing is primitive, as is Lewis's, but also listenable despite the erratic recording quality. Closing this set are nine minutes of "talking records" that feature Johnson reminiscing about the past. In reality, this release is more important historically than musically; get Bunk's final recordings (on Delmark) first. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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Bunk Johnson

Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson
(ca. 1879 or 1889 – July 7, 1949)
was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s.
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This piece of paper comes from the collection of Boston jazz aficionado Samuel Prescott, and it’s an absolute Who’s Who of jazz stars who came through that city in the Forties. The Prescott papers (and discs) are now held by the University of New Hampshire Library, and they took good care of this piece of paper, crowded with signatures of great men and women:

Bunk Johnson 1944

Bunk Johnson – trumpet

George Lewis – cl
arinet
Jim Robinson – trombone

Lawrence Marrero – banjo

“Slow Drag” Alcide Pavageau – b
ass
Baby Dodds – dr
ums
Sidney Brown – tuba (on track 9)

Rec. in New Orleans, 1944

1. Tiger Rag, Pt. 2 4:38
2. We Will Walk Through the Streets [#2] 3:58
3. Sister Kate [#2][#] 4:02
4. Lord, Lord, You Sure Are Good to Me [#2] 4:07
5. Darktown Strutters' Ball [#1] 4:26
6. When You Wore a Tulip 4:33
7. Careless Love, No. 3 4:10
8. There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes 4:25
9. My Life Will Be Sweeter Someday 4:16
10. Shake It and Break It [#4] 4:40
11. Panama [#3] 4:42
12. Alabama Bound 3:48
13. High Society 2:40
14. Ballin' the Jack [#2] 3:56
15. When the Saints Go Marching In [#2] 3:57

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Bunk Johnson – The King Of The Blues (1944)

Bunk Johnson – tr
umpet
George Lewis – cl
arinet
Jim Robinson – trombone

Baby Dodds – dr
ums
Lawrence Marrero – banjo

“Slow Drag” Alcide Pavageau – bass

feat.

Sidney “Jim Little” Brown – tuba (on Tracks 2 & 8 only)

Rec. July and August 1944

1. C. C Rider 3:54
2. Low Down Blues 4:39
3. St. Louis Blues 4:14
4. Blue as I Can Be 4:03
5. Dippermouth Blues 3:51
6. Midnight Blues 9:25
7. Weary Blues 4:43
8. New Iberia Blues 4:21
9. Careless Love 4:43
10. How Long Blues 3:59
11. Royal Garden Blues 4:01
12. Tishomingo Blues 4:56
13. C. C Rider Blues 4:17


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