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Title: Another one!
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on September 17, 2025, 08:28:41 PM
As discussed in a nearby thread, I am currently reading Dennis McNally's On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom (about 33% done, and so far enjoying it mightily).
On page 125, he runs down the members of the Buddy Bolden Band; they were the first NOLA band to use the leader's name, and the wilder of the 2 biggest acts in town in 1900.
The line-up was: cornet - Buddy Bolden; C clarinet - Willie Warner; B♭ clarinet - Frank Lewis; valve trombone - Willie Cornish; guitar - Brock Mumford; drums, Cornelius Tillman; and on bass, none other than (drum roll please, Cornelius).......................Jimmy Johnson!

Our friend does get around.  8)

Peter
Title: Re: Another one!
Post by: jazzyvee on September 18, 2025, 12:11:24 AM
What is a NOLA band?
Title: Re: Another one!
Post by: edwardofhuncote on September 18, 2025, 04:09:18 AM
NOLA is a colloquialism for New Orleans, Louisiana Jazzy. The NO is a bit more obvious, but the LA is a postal service abbreviation for the State possibly not so clear outside the United States.

They probably hate it down there, but where I live, we pronounce it more as one drawled word; Nawlins.

*Curious if Jimmy J played upright in this context?  😊
Title: Re: Another one!
Post by: JimmyJ on September 18, 2025, 05:47:53 AM
Ha!  Turn of the century you say?  So I would have been -56 years old (that’s minus 56).  :D

Everybody knows a Jimmy Johnson and many are more famous than I.

Jimmy J (one of them)
Title: Re: Another one!
Post by: David Houck on September 18, 2025, 06:53:45 AM
 :)
Title: Re: Another one!
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on September 18, 2025, 07:37:30 AM
Quote from: edwardofhuncote on September 18, 2025, 04:09:18 AM
NOLA is a colloquialism for New Orleans, Louisiana Jazzy. The NO is a bit more obvious, but the LA is a postal service abbreviation for the State possibly not so clear outside the United States.

They probably hate it down there, but where I live, we pronounce it more as one drawled word; Nawlins.

*Curious if Jimmy J played upright in this context?  😊


There is a picture of the band (for some reason minus the drummer), and yes; a doghouse.

And sorry for my reflexive use of the acronym to those Over There.

Greg:  Almost every person I've met from NOLA says it "Nawlins".

Peter
Title: Re: Another one!
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on September 18, 2025, 07:38:30 AM
Quote from: JimmyJ on September 18, 2025, 05:47:53 AM

Everybody knows a Jimmy Johnson and many are more famous than I.

Jimmy J (one of them)

But not rightly so!

Peter