Bunk Johnson

Bunk Johnson Panama

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Panama. Dia-Show about the first recording session of the New Orleans Revival in 1942. Recorded by Bill Russel...

BUNK JOHNSON ( aint gonna study war )

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Talking about his early days Bolden played my style of music that I liked, I liked to read but I rather playe...

BUNK JOHNSON - Sister Kate

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Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band. Another 78 from my youth. ie from the 1947 Swing Music series. The 78 w...

Alexander's Ragtime Band -Bunk Johnson

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Another recording from 1945, the New York session. See notes to the Maryland posting, and the pianist (I think...

See See Rider - Bunk Johnson

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This is a re-post which now benefits from advice from both RobeGre and poutitechatte. Many thanks, fellas! Tak...

Franklin Street Blues -Bunk Johnson

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I just thought it was time to post another of my old Bunk Johnson 78 s. So here you go, -this is one number he...

Maryland, my Maryland - Bunk Johnson

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Bunk Johnson and his band, recorded New York, 12th November 1945. Sorry that there is no clip to watch, but th...

Bunk Johnson - Slow blues

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I must apologise for the fade in start to this posting; it is because the first part (3 minutes?) of the 33rpm...

Lonesome Road - Bunk Johnson

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Here s another track by the blessed Bunk, taken from the same vinyl as See See Rider (See previous notes). He ...

Poor Butterfly - Bunk Johnson & Don Ewel...

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This is another of the trios recorded in New York in April 1946 with Don Ewell; pno. and Alphonso Steele; dms....

Bunk Johnson, trios.

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Here are a couple more of the trios recorded in New York City in April 1946 by Bunk Johnson - accompanied by D...

BUNK JOHNSON 'DARK TOWN STRUTTERS BALL'

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BUNK JOHNSON - One Sweet Letter From You

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The flip-side of Sister Kate, a 78 from my younger days....

Where the River Shannon flows -Bunk John...

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This is one of the Trio tracks made in New York City in April 1946 when Bunk recorded eight or so standard pop...

"Snag It" - Bunk Johnson

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When I realised that my next posting would be number ONEHUNDRED!! I thought it should encapsulate, as far as p...

Garvin Bushell talks about early jazz an...

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Garvin Bushell interviewed by Joe Williams on the program Jump For Jazz. Garvin Bushell talks about early jazz...

Bunk Johnson's V- Disc Veterans - Arkans...

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This recording was made in San Francisco in 1944 in the middle of the New Orleans revival era, it featured a b...

Bunk Johnson with Sidney Bechet's Blue N...

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Recorded in New York in 1945, as well as Johnson tpt and Bechet sop sax this band Included the very under rate...

Up In Sidney's Flat-Bunk, Bechet et. al.

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When I posted an earlier Bunk Johnson track, about a couple of months ago, poutitechatte responded by asking f...

Old Rugged Cross Lewis George 1962

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Petit, Chris Kelly regularly, and sometimes with Kid Ory and many other band leaders, seldom traveling far fro...

Flying to New Orleans - George Lewis Jaz...

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In 1942 some jazz fans and writers came to New Orleans to record the legendary older trumpeter Bunk Johnson. B...

Over the Waves -- George Lewis 1962

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Japanese jazz fans played by George Lewis and his famous Jazzmen. I recognize Punch Miller on trumpet and Loui...

The Golden Eagle Jazz Band playing, When...

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The Golden Eagle Jazz Band are based in the UK and specialize in New Orleans jazz in particular the music of B...

Ory's Creole Trombone - Turk Murphy/Clim...

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and I became interested in jazz. Ory s Creole trombone was a tune (first recorded in 1927 by Louis Armstrong s...

Drum Improvisations -Baby Dodds

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Here is another gem from my archives. I can t remember where it came from, and the only note that I kept says ...

When the Saints Go Marching In

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Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band from December 1945. ... Bunk Johnson...