Word: keppard
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...institution bent on refining ruffians. It was there that young Louis first put his lips to the mouthpiece of a cornet. Like any American boy, no matter his point of social origin, he had his dreams. At night he used to lie in bed, hearing the masterly Freddie Keppard out in the streets blowing that golden horn, and hope that he too would someday have command of a clarion sound...
...anyone in the business and can remember when the Methusalah of the trumpet, Bunk Johnson, was still a youngster. As a matter of fact, he says, Bunk wasn't one of the big boys even in the days when he still had his own teeth. Buddy Petit, Freddy Keppard and Joe Oliver were the real trumpet kings...
...spacious days before World War I, Bunk used to "call his people home" with his own New Orleans boys-the Original Superior Band. Louis Armstrong, who followed Bunk around, carrying his trumpet, was only one of the many Negro trumpeters and cornetists (Tommy Ladnier, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Buddy Petit, Punch Miller) who learned from Bunk. And Bunk, who could play any tune in any key without stopping to think ("sharps and flats they never bothered me"), was the greatest of them all. Bunk, they said, "had more in his haid." He had played ever since his mother had bought...
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