Prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s. Jazz fans and historians still debate Bunk’s legacy, and the extent to which his colorful reminiscences of his early career were accurate, misremembered, exaggerations, or lies. Vintage 5.5 x 7.5 book photo of Johnson posing with his trumpet, signed and inscribed in green fountain pen “To Phil from Willie Bunk Johnson.” In fine condition. R&R COA.
