BUNK JOHNSON - Sister Kate

Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band. Another '78' from my youth. i.e. from the 1947 Swing Music series.
The '78' was rather scratchy - so - sorry about the knife & forks effect!
The flip-side is One Sweet Letter From You - to be uploaded soon.
Can anyone tell us the personnel on this record? Courtesy of a viewer [Robegre] it was:-
Bunk Johnson trumpet
George Lewis clarinet
Jim Robinson trombone
Alton Purnell piano
Lawrence Marrero banjo
Alcide Slow Drag Pavageau bass
Baby Dodds drums

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• Bunk_Johnson
• Sister_Kate
• 1949
• 1950s
• 1954
• 50s
• fifties
• history
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• century

[tillgoescraicy]

The picture of a white cornet player is the

english Ken Colyer who lived in New Orleans for a while.

Look him up on YouTube

[DADRENO]

The picture of a white cornet player is the

english Ken Colyer who lived in New Orleans for a while.

Look him up on YouTube

Actually it is me when I was a lad!

[joevanrossem]

Hey Dad! Who is the White Cornet player in your picture Video ? Thanks

[DADRENO]

Actually it is me when I was a lad!

[RobeGre]

Bunk Johnson trumpet

George Lewis clarinet

Jim Robinson trombone

Alton Purnell piano

Lawrence Marrero banjo

Alcide Slow Drag Pavageau bass

Baby Dodds drums

[DADRENO]

Thanks - I have added it to the info panel!

[lPES2009l]

Thanks man i love this Music^^

[Corrie121]

Great!!

Thanks for posting.

[leoncoda]

En una auto-biografia de LOUIS ARMSTRONG que cubre los primeros 24 años de su vida- MY LIFE IN NEW ORLEANS- éste cuenta que sus dos principales maestros fueron KING OLIVER y BUNK JOHNSON , los cuales tocaban con gran sensibilidad, cosa que no tenía BUDDY BOLDEN , el cual tocaba muy fuerte y su sonido, por tanto, llegaba muy lejos , pero sin sensibilidad..Puede encontrarse dicha biografía, por ejemplo, en el sitio de libros descatalogados iberlibro, y en español: MI VIDA EN NUEVA ORLEANS

[Mondibaby]

lovely ... old school jazz new orleans style ... thanx for the upload!

[MrDeCorey]

Great Song and fantastic Jazz band!

[pianiplunker]

There's some pretty good evidence on the doctorjazz Jelly Roll Morton website that suggests Bunk was actually born in 1884.

[Huckabeezer]

@DADRENO In the (short) biographies I've been able to track down, the authors speculate that Bunk tried to make himself sound older so that his career would overlap more with the origins of N.O. jazz and originals such as Buddy Bolden. The theory is interesting. He wouldn't be the only artist who tried it. You really can't tell anything definitive from photos alone. People in that era aged faster.

[cdhatch1]

I LOVE ME SOME BUNK JOHNSON !!

[mdwag57]

@tscoco07 From 1879 to 1949 is 70 years, and that birth year is what he told people . If, as some say, he was really born in 1889, he would have been just 60 when he died. He may have been worn down by hard life. Things were rough for blacks coming out of slavery in the south. Life was still very hard as a young field hand, probably did child labor. All his elders would remember slavery, when he was a young man. Even I remember a poor black sharecropper with a mule when I was a child.

[tscoco07]

Are they kidding?

the man in the photo is at least 70 years old. That means he was born in 1869 if he died in 1949.

[Squarerig]

Unfortunately Ken Colyer was more enthusiastic than skilled on the trumpet.Nevertheless,he did his best!

[chateaujobert001]

espectacular