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    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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  • league catcher in 1925 Bunk Johnson (1879–1949), New Orleans jazz trumpeter Oscar Requer (fl. 1964–2007), nicknamed "The Bunk", a former Baltimore police...
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    acclaim. Later in his youth, Bechet studied with Joseph "King" Oliver, Bunk Johnson, Freddie Keppard, Lorenzo Tio, "Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle, and George...
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  • recordings and reissues, concentrating on New Orleans jazz musicians such as Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Baby Dodds, and Wooden Joe Nicholas. In 1957 Storyville...
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    (2011–2012) Attorney General-State of Louisiana 2016–present.[citation needed] Bunk Johnson, Dixieland jazz musician and trumpet player, settled in New Iberia in...
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    genres. Musicians such as Buddy Bolden, John Robichaux, Merry Clayton, Bunk Johnson and Allen Toussaint all came from the neighborhood and helped shape the...
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    Sidney Bechet, Kid Ory, George Lewis, George Brunis, Muggsy Spanier, and Bunk Johnson. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ewell played with Bill Reinhardt's Jazz...
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  • Brian Johnson (born 1947), British-born lead singer of the Australian rock band AC/DC Bunk Johnson (1879–1949), American jazz musician Buzz Johnson (1951–2014)...
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    Connoisseur JCC78 http://www.fellers.se/Bunk/Books_files/Bunk%20Johnson%20Discography%20seachable.pdf Bunk Johnson Discography, page 32 Columbia Records...
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    fighting and vaudeville shows. Early jazz musicians such as Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, Freddie Keppard were heard there, and John Robichaux's Orchestra was...
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    his trips back to New Orleans, he recorded with Bunk Johnson. Dodds ended up playing with Johnson's band in New York. Dodds described his impressions...
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    loud, "wide open" playing style. Joe "King" Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, and other early New Orleans jazz musicians were directly inspired by...
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  • William Johnson may refer to: Bunk Johnson (William Gary Johnson, 1879–1949), American jazz musician William H. Johnson (artist) (1901–1970), African-American...
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  • The Blind Boys of Alabama (on Amazing Grace and Down in New Orleans) Bunk Johnson, 1942 Chimène Badi, 2011 (Gospel & Soul album) Chris Barber's Jazz Band...
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  • recordings of the number, including a 1945 session by Bunk Johnson's Brass Band featuring numbers Johnson had played in New Orleans before he left in 1915...
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    joined a quartet of boys who sang in the streets for money. Cornetist Bunk Johnson said he taught the eleven-year-old to play by ear at Dago Tony's honky...
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  • Rose, Luckey Roberts, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Lu Watters, Bob Scobey, Bunk Johnson, Kid Ory, George Lewis, Johnny Wiggs, Sharkey Bonano, Don Ewell, and...
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  • Jacquet Harry James Nils Janson Ingrid Jensen Tore Jensen Tore Johansen Bunk Johnson Connie Jones Jonah Jones Sean Jones Thad Jones Bert Joris Per Jørgensen...
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  • who, in 1939, co-founded Jazz Information, and in 1942, co-produced Bunk Johnson. Williams was born in Manhattan, New York. He enrolled at Columbia College...
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    Lorenzo Tio Jr. Trumpet Peter Bocage, Tig Chambers, Edward Clem, Bunk Johnson, Joe Johnson, Frank Keelin, Freddie Keppard, King Oliver, John Penerton, Buddy...
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  • boogie piano style there early in the 20th century, as did Leadbelly and Bunk Johnson, according to Rosetta Reitz. The first time the modern-day spelling of...
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    with the later recordings of Jelly-Roll Morton and the rediscovery of Bunk Johnson in 1942. This revival ultimately led to the founding of Preservation...
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  • heard jazz drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds playing inventive solos with Bunk Johnson's band. Blesh said he hated drum solos until he saw Dodds. To record Dodds...
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  • Ingram Don Jacoby Harry James Angus Harry James Ingrid Jensen Cui Jian Bunk Johnson Jonah Jones Sean Jones Thad Jones Freddie Keppard George Kid Sheik Cola...
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    places where the new "jazz" music was heard outside of New Orleans. Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit, Papa Celestin, George Lewis, Kid Ory, Edmond Hall, Chester...
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    including pianist Jimmy Yancey and old original New Orleans Jazz Trumpeter Bunk Johnson, soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, guitarist Django Reinhardt,...
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    historic recording session in New Orleans with Bunk Johnson, putting together a group he called Bunk Johnson's Original Superior Band.: 303  In December 1942...
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    related to Galop. Streetswing's Dance History: "Galop" William Geary "Bunk" Johnson, Well-known Soloists From All Walks of Life: Herman Koenig v t e...
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    "Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 and Hot 7, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, the Mississippi Sheiks, Sam Morgan's Jazz...
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  • John Renbourn's albums include a credit to New Orleans jazz musician Bunk Johnson. Will Shade. "THE THIEVING MAGPIES: Jimmy Page's Dubious Recording Legacy...
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