Johnny Dunn

Johnny Dunn worked from 1916 to 1920 with WC Handy and became a member of Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds. With a second edition of the Jazz Hounds under his direction, he accompanied the singer Edith Wilson, and later with recordings for Columbia ( " Mammy, I'm Thinking of You "). In 1919 he came to New York, in the 1920s he worked with Perry Bradford, Will Vodery, with whom he went to Europe and in 1926 appeared in Paris with Noble Sissle. In London he took in 1923 and 1926 with the C.B. Cochran 's Plantation Orchestra; 1928 made ​​recordings for Columbia with Jelly Roll Morton. In the late 1920s, he formed his own band, the Original Jazz Hounds, with whom he toured in the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium. At the age of only 40 years, he died at the American Hospital of Paris.

After Cook and Morton was his style - similar to that of Freddie Keppard - hard and loud. The data obtained from him recordings show him as technically secure the damper in Joe Oliver style masterfully -using instrumentalists. Jabbo Smith described him as an important influence on his own game.

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