Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunk Johnson, an old man who had spent a lifetime playing his cornet in the rural south in and around New Orleans. He had never recorded, but among the old timers in New Orleans, he was remembered with great respect. The collectors finally located Bunk in New Iberia, Louisiana. He was slight and dark with snow white hair, well into his sixties by then. Did he play anymore? No, haven't touched a horn in ten years. Did he have a horn? Nope. My horn got wrecked the night Evan Thomas was murdered on the bandstand...
...cornet, and threw together a band of unknown black jazzmen from New Orelans. In the fall, the old men gathered in a piano warehouse to make some home recordings because the professional studios in the city refused to record Negroes. When the crude recording machine was warmed up, Bunk stomped off the first number, "Make Me a Pallet on the Flood," and the "revival" of traditional jazz began...
...nolo contenders and they were each fined $3,000, more than half of the $5,000 maximum in a case of this kind. No where was there the slightest evidence that Humphrey had taken any special interest in the Ewald case. He answered the Trib story in a word: "Bunk...
Miss Blueye and Rocchino were arrested Aug. 11 at Sopren, Hungary, when border guards found Frank Schober, an East German concealed under a bunk in the car trailer the pair were driving. They admitted Schrober's mother offered them $2500 if they could smuggle Schrober into the West...
...pretty nurse he meets tries to be helpful, but her world is too different from that of a poor, illegal immigrant with no working papers and little French. When Carlos finally appears, he can offer Antonio nothing better than a day laborer's job and a filthy bunk in a mud-soaked shantytown...