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Bunk Johnson: Founding Father of Jazz

By Paul Maassen

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-977750.mp3

New Orleans, LA – In the 1940's, jazz began to be recognized as a genre worthy of acedemic study. Around this time, trumpeter Bunk Johnson gained a cult following as one of the founding fathers of this New Orleans-born music. WWNO's Paul Maassen got the story from the director of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University, Dr. Bruce Raeburn.

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