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Bunk Johnson
Johnson in 1946
Background information
Birth name
William Gary Johnson
Also known as
Bunk
Born
(1879-12-27)December 27, 1879 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died
July 7, 1949(1949-07-07) (aged 69) New Iberia, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres
Jazz
Instrument(s)
Trumpet
Musical artist
Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson (December 27, 1879 – July 7, 1949)[1] was an American prominent jazz trumpeter in New Orleans. Johnson gave the year of his birth as 1879, although there is speculation that he may have been younger by as much as a decade. Johnson stated on his 1937 application for Social Security that he was born on December 27, 1889.[2] Many jazz historians[who?] believe this date of birth to be the most accurate of the various dates Johnson gave throughout his life.
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1294. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
^Tomko, Gene (2020). Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians: Jazz, Blues, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Swamp Pop, and Gospel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 136–137. ISBN 978-0807169322.
Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson (December 27, 1879 – July 7, 1949) was an American prominent jazz trumpeter in New Orleans. Johnson gave the year of his birth...
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with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of BunkJohnson in 1942, leading to the founding of Preservation Hall in the French Quarter...
loud, "wide open" playing style. Joe "King" Oliver, Freddie Keppard, BunkJohnson, and other early New Orleans jazz musicians were directly inspired by...
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some of the earliest jazz bands. He played Buddy Petit, BunkJohnson, and Herb Morand. Johnson bragged that he taught Louis Armstrong how to play cornet...
"Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 and Hot 7, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, BunkJohnson, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, the Mississippi Sheiks, Sam Morgan's Jazz...
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