Tommy Ladnier

Thomas J. "Tommy" Ladnier ( born May 28, 1900 in Florenceville in Louisiana, † June 4, 1939 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter.

In his famous, but notoriously unreliable autobiography Really The Blues Mezz Mezzrow, clarinet player called him as "second only to Louis Armstrong ." Like this statement also be coated, so Ladnier but is rightly regarded as one of the greatest stylists of his instrument in traditional jazz.

Ladnier was born in Florenceville in the U.S. state of Louisiana, but came as a teenager in the " birthplace of jazz ", so to New Orleans. Like so many young musicians of his generation, he left the city after the closure of the entertainment district Storyville in 1917 to pursue a career in the Chicago metropolitan. There he continued his style to form the basis of his idols Bunk Johnson and King Oliver, and adopted in 1924 for the first time in the recording studio part.

In the same year moved Ladnier to New York to join the big band of Fletcher Henderson. About this extraordinarily renomméeträchtige commitment in 1925 he found his way into the eleven-member band of pianist Sam Wooding, who was preparing at this time, to accompany the revue Chocolate Kiddies on their European tour. During the Berlin- guest performance heard among other things, the young Alfred Lion, who later became the founder of the style- label Blue Note Records, the American virtuoso.

During the later 1920s and 1930s played Ladnier alternately in the bands of Henderson, Wooding and Noble Sissle, with whom he repeatedly each guest appearances in Europe. It also recordings for the label Swing originated. However, his biggest musical ( and commercial ) success he celebrated the mid-30s with the New Orleans Feet Warmers, which he ran together with saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet.

At the age of only 39 years, Tommy Ladnier died in New York of a heart attack.

• Jazz trumpeter
• American musician
• Born 1900
• Died in 1939
• Man