Johnny Dunn - Vamping Sal (The Sheba of Georgia)

Johnny Dunn was considered one of New York's best 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 formed his own band called the Original Jazz Hounds 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 showbizz side music and played in other musical reviews. Dunn liked Europe and spent most of his later life there. He played in the Southern Syncopated Orchestra along with Sidney Bechet and with Dave Peyton, and Noble Sissle Orchestra's while overseas. He also found work playing trumpet in several other shows that revolved around Edith Wilson, Florence Mills or Josephine Baker. In 1928 he was back in New York but returned to Europe with the Noble Sissle Orchestra and then moved to the Netherlands and then Denmark for several years. Dunn died in 1937. This record was made in 1923.