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...Bunk on Discs...
Sirs: It was a pleasure to read the story of Trumpeter Bunk Johnson's San Francisco triumph (TIME...
Time enough to pay dry-cleaning bills and to wonder whittler we will miss the 2300 "All-Secure" and the delicious moment of tumbling back into the lower bunk after the matey has dragged "All Feet on Deck" at 0645... and that crush at the mailboxes with at least fifty witness to the fact that you got six letters and a package and it wasn't your birthday...and the armed foroes we are leaving behind us... Now don't let us get mellow. time enough for that, too, when celebrating our WAVE wedding on June 9 when Ensign Jean...
...Play. The Museum directors had a still more ambitious idea. They decided to surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...morning of the concert Clarinetist Whaley disappeared and Bunk Johnson refused to get out of bed for rehearsal. But that evening Bunk Johnson and his band were terrific. Some suggested they be put on a permanent basis. But Bunk was thinking about the soft Gulf breezes and New Iberia. Said he: "This San Francisco fog just gets me all full of cold...