BUNK’S SAINTS Hank Cherry’s piece on Bunk Johnson in your June 2010 edition is quite interesting and to the best of my knowledge completely accurate, but it leaves out one important historical fact. It was Bunk’s recordings and regular playing of “When the Saints Go Marching In” that turned it into the musical icon that [...]
When writers Bill Russell and Fredric Ramsey tracked Bunk Johnson down in New Iberia, Louisiana in 1938, they found him toothless and out of music. Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong had spoken so highly of Johnson to the men that they searched him out for their book Jazzmen, if only to discover how and why [...]
August 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The first New Orleans jazz revival took place in the 1930s and ’40s. It was sparked by a book called Jazzmen that led to the reappearance of first generation jazz musicians including Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Jim Robinson, Kid Ory and Mutt Carey. They made a major impression in New York, Los Angeles, Europe, even [...]
Most of the musicians on this latest Serenaders disc have been practicing and playing New Orleans jazz for 45 years. Pianist Butch Thompson talks in the liner notes about meeting trumpeter/leader Clive Wilson and clarinetist Tommy Sancton at Preservation Hall in the ’60s, when they were youngsters rabidly soaking up the sounds. Surely the players [...]
By Tom McDermott
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Posted in Reviews
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Also tagged All That I Can Ask of You is Love, Butch Thompson, Climax Rag, Clive Wilson, George Lewis, Heart Full of Rhythm, King Porter Stomp, Lying to Myself, New Orleans Serenaders, Preservation Hall, Tommy Sancton
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