Will Johnson

Not to end up being confused with primal New Orleans bassist Expenses Johnson (given birth to circa 1872), Can Johnson was created in Lexington, KY, in 1905. Mixed up in music scene around Louisville, Johnson journeyed to NY using the Dixie Ramblers close to the end of 1926 and caused a music group led by drummer George Howe in 1927, the entire year he started a five-year stint with Luis Russell’s Orchestra. From 1928 to 1930, Johnson sat along with quite a variety of scorching jazz performers. His initial noteworthy documented performances had been as an associate of Ruler Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators, with whom he could be noticed playing both banjo and electric guitar on the November 1928 documenting of “Decrease and Steady.” Johnson was an extremely busy session guy through the years 1929 and 1930, showing up on information with Jelly Move Morton, clarinetist Wilton Crawley, Regina “Queen” Victoria Spivey, and despite having Victoria’s sister Addie “Special Pease” Spivey. Johnson produced a small number of information with Extra fat Waller & His Buddies in Dec 1929 and with trombonist J.C. Higginbotham’s Six Hicks in Feb 1930. His performing may be noticed on information he made out of Jack port Purvis and with trumpeter Henry “Crimson” Allen, with whom he documented “YOU CAN FIND Better BUT YOU WILL Never Obtain Well” on Feb 18, 1930. Amid all this activity, Johnson was still dealing with Luis Russell. He documented with Russell in 1929 and 1930 and continuing to utilize this Panamanian pianist and his exceptional jazz orchestra until 1932. Johnson was an associate from the Fess Williams music group in 1933 and 1934, after that proved helpful as guitarist-for-hire until he quit performing full-time sooner or later through the middle ’40s. He came back to Lexington, where through the summertime of 1955 he’s said to possess perished within a fire that demolished everything he possessed.