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Thomas J.
"Tommy" Ladnier (May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939) was an American jazz
trumpeter. Clarinetist/writer Mezz Mezzrow rated him second only to Louis
Armstrong.
Ladnier moved
to New
  Orleans New Orleans Chicago New York City Europe  with Sam Wooding's band, then returned
to the States to rejoin Fletcher Henderson, and then played in Noble Sissle's
Orchestra, with whom he again toured Europe .
In the 1930s Ladnier co-led a band with Sidney 
Tommy Ladnier
died of a heart attack in New York City 
Jimmy O'Bryant
(c. 1896, Arkansas Kentucky June 24, 1928 , Chicago 
O'Bryant
played with the Tennessee Ten in 1920-21, then in a group with Jelly Roll
Morton and W.C. Handy in 1923. In 1924 he played with King Oliver. From 1923 to
1926 he recorded extensively with Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders, and also did
sessions with his own Washboard Band. He died in 1928 at the peak of his
career.
Gertrude Rainey v / Tommy Ladnier c / Jimmy O'Bryant cl / Lovie Austin p.
Recorded in Chicago on December 12, 1923.
 
Nothing, and I mean nothing, can stir one's soul like the early recordings. The echo, the tinny sound of a piano, a trumpet, the voice through a megaphone. Love these Paramounts.
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