Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only men playing old-style jazz outside New Orleans today are the aging old masters who came from there. In Los Angeles, jazz purists flock to hear the great tailgate trombonist, 56-year-old Edward ("Kid") Ory. New Yorkers until recently could seek out 66-year-old Trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson, playing in a Lower East Side ballroom...
...Watters learned about jazz secondhand. When he was born in Santa Cruz, Calif, in 1911, Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was ragtiming the opera Martha up & down the Mississippi; Bunk Johnson was playing his cornet in Storyville's famous Eagle Band and teaching his eleven-year-old "boy Louis" (Armstrong) to blow his first blues. Bull-necked Lu Watters was less than 11 when he blew his first trumpet...
...hour in overtime pay; 4) retroactivity to Oct. 1, 1945. When the operators winced, the left-of-left C.M.U. pointed out that its able and ordinary seamen were working some 60 hours a week and trying to support families on an average monthly wage of $138. Despite bunk and board while working, this was far below the average wage of most U.S. shore workers...
House masters are leaving the matter of where the extra man will sleep up to the individuals themselves, but in most instances the added man is expected to draw an upper bunk, sharing a bedroom with one of his roommates. In some suites, bedrooms are large enough to accommodate two single beds...
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...