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Some New Orleans Personalities
Louis Armstrong (born 1900). Trumpeter Armstrong is generally acclaimed as the greatest of all jazz musicians. Charged at an early age with boisterously letting off a pistol during a parade, he was sent for a term to the Waifs' Home, where he learned to play the cornet in the band. At the age of fourteen, he was a competent enough cornet player to perform regularly in good bands, and he succeeded Joe 'King' Oliver in Kid Ory's band in 1918. After a spell on the river boats, he moved to Chicago, where he joined 'King5 Oliver's band at the newly-opened Lincoln Gardens. His astonishing virtuosity and instinctive musical feeling have kept for him a tremendous following to the present day.
Sidney Bechet (born 1897). One of the greatest of jazz clarinettists, renowned for*his powerful tone and prodigious technique, Bechet started clarinet at the age of six, and was playing with Freddie Keppard's band when he was only ten. Famed above all for his blues playing, he has travelled all over the world playing clarinet and soprano sax. His musicianship has been enthusiastically praised by the great Swiss conductor Ernst Ansermet.
Bunk Johnson (1879-1949) A fine 'natural' cornet player who started by playing second to 'Buddy' Bolden. He played with^the Eagle Band in the heyday of the New Orleans period of march and parade bandplaying. After a long period of retirement, he was traced, in 1938, to an obscure township in |
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