Johnny Windhurst
John Henry " Johnny" Wind Hurst ( born November 5, 1926 in New York City; † October 2, 1981 in Poughkeepsie, New York ) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Life and work
Wind Hurst taught himself trumpet, influenced by the music of Bix Beiderbeckes. He became famous in 1945 when Sidney Bechet for a longer engagement at the Savoy Café in Boston put together a band; Veterans first employed Bunk Johnson, he replaced after a few weeks by the young trumpeter. Then wind Hurst played with Art Hodes and James P. Johnson at a Town Hall concert in September 1946 For a time he worked in Chicago, then moved to California, where he played with Edmond Hall and Stan Hasselgård. ; He also worked with Louis Armstrong and Nappy Lamare. In Ohio and Boston, he led his own formation; In the early 1950s he also worked with Eddie Condon. 1952/53, he participated in recordings of Ruby Braff, and later with recordings of Barbara Lea ( 1955-57 ), Jack Teagarden (1955) and Lee Wiley. In 1956 he took under his own name on the album Jazz at Columbus Avenue for the label transition, in which also the bassist Buell Neidlinger participated. Mid-1950s, he worked in Ohio, and from 1957 until the early 1960s, again in Eddie Condon's club in New York. Then he played in Poughkeepsie.