The most historic jam session in the annals of jazz took place one hot day last week in San Francisco’s Geary Theater. Some 1,500 devotees thronged to hear it from all over northern California, from ...

His stories were many and his tunes aplenty. So it was with jazz musician Bunk Johnson, the New Orleans trumpet player whose travels and travails are legendary and who eventually found a new home and ...

Willie Gary Johnson was one to blow his own horn. In fact, the New Orleans jazzman talked so much smack about himself and his exploits that he earned the nickname “Bunk.” Johnson’s horn, however, ...

Playwright Ifa Bayeza has been chosen for the Shadows-on-the-Teche's project, "Bunk Johnson at the Shadows: Historic Interpretation through Dramatic Performance." The one-act dramatic work will focus ...

This week, The Jim Cullum Jr. Jazz Band celebrates the traditional New Orleans improvised ensemble style of Bunk Johnson. We'll hear his stories, part fact and part fiction, brought to life by the ...

To stream this show now, go to http://www.riverwalk.org. Bunk Johnson was a fine cornet player, a pioneer in the early days of New Orleans jazz. He fell on hard times ...

Bunk Johnson and Leadbelly at the Stuyvesant Casino in New York City. June 1946. Read more about Leadbelly in this TPM Editor’s Blog post on the passing of Pete Seeger.