REAL NAME: JOHNSON WILLIAM GEARY
BORN IN: New Orleans (Louisiana)
BIRTH DATE: 1879. 27 DECEMBER
DIED IN: New Orleans (Louisiana)
DEATH DATE: 1949. 7 JULY. ———  The trumpeter Bunk Johnson, belongs to that class of legendary musicians of the early era of African American music when he still had not been invented the gramophone and the musicians played at social events in the city, in the gambling dens and brothels of the neighborhood prohibited New Orleans, “Storyville”. It also  has to Bunk Johnson, met and played the  legendary cornetist Buddy Bolden, who was  said – there is no record to prove it – there  never was a cornet player like him.Since 1894, Bunk Johnson was part of the  orchestra Adam Oliver, with whom he  remained until 1914. He had previously gone to  New York, Dallas and San Francisco in 1903  and when I return to New Orleans entered the Read the rest of this entry »