Johnny Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds

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Johnny Dunn (February 19, 1897 – August 20, 1937) was an American jazz trumpeter and vaudeville performer, who was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is probably best known for his work during the 1920s with musicians such as Perry Bradford or Noble Sissle. In 1928, Dunn recorded four tracks with Jelly Roll Morton, and two more with both James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. He never made any more recordings, and relocated permanently to Europe. Dunn died aged 40 in Paris, France in August 1937, but with his playing style out of fashion he was largely forgotten by that time. Before Louis Armstrong left Chicago to join Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra in 1924, Johnny Dunn was considered the king of New York's Jazz trumpet players. Dunn was discovered in Memphis by W.C. Handy in 1916 and worked for him until he left in 1920 to take over Blues singer Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds. When Dunn left Mamie's band he was replaced by Bubber Miley. Dunn then formed his own band called the Original Jazz Hounds that featured singer Edith Wilson (who later became famous as Aunt Jemima in Quaker Oats commercials), whom he had met while playing in the Plantation Revue on Broadway. The show was a great success and even played in London. Upon returning to America she left the revue and joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. Dunn was always heavily involved in the show biz side music and played in other musical reviews built around singer Florence Mills. The revues that he worked in seemed to always end u

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