Various – New Orleans Jazz – Vol. 1 – 1942-55

12,10

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Track Listing:
A. Bunk Johnson: 1. Maple Leaf Rag -   2. Ballin' The Jack -   3. After You're Gone -   4. All The Whores Like The Way I Ride -   5. 827 Blues -   6. Margie -   7. You Always Hurt The One You Love -   8. Do Right Baby -   9. Golden Leaf strut -
B. Dink Johnson: 1. Indian Rag -   George Lewis: 2. Careless Love Blues -   3. Don't Go 'Way Nobody -   4. Big Butter And Egg Man No 2 -   5. Bourbon Street Parade No 2 -   6. Nobody Knows The Way I feel This Morning -   7. I Can't Escape From You

Reviews:

1. AllMusic - Scott Yanow
This collector's LP from the Austrian label Wolf fills in some gaps for trad jazz fanatics. After Bunk Johnson (in 1942) is heard playing a brief fragment of "Maple Leaf Rag" on piano, the trumpeter leads his band (with clarinetist George Lewis, trombonist Jim Robinson and drummer Baby Dodds) during 1944-45 on some standards and classic jazz obscurities. Pianist Dink Johnson plays a solo version of "Indian Rag," and the album concludes with two songs apiece from three versions of George Lewis's groups, from 1943, 1951 and 1955...