Money Johnson

Harold "Money" Johnson (February 23, 1918, Tyler, Texas - March 28, 1978, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Johnson first played trumpet at age 15. He moved to Oklahoma City in 1936 and played with Charlie Christian and Henry Bridges before joining Nat Towles's band. He played briefly with Horace Henderson and Bob Dorsey in the early 1940s before returning to Towles's band in 1944 in Chicago. He also played with Count Basie, Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, and Bull Moose Jackson in the 1940s. His associations in the 1950s included Louis Jordan (1951), Lucky Thompson (1953), Sy Oliver, Buddy Johnson, Cozy Cole, Mercer Ellington, Little Esther (1956), and Panama Francis (for a tour of Montevideo, Uruguay in 1953).

In the 1960s Johnson played in the house band at the Apollo Theater in New York, and recorded with King Curtis in 1962. He toured the USSR with Earl Hines in 1966. From 1968 he played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra and also worked again with Hines and Oliver. He recorded with Buck Clayton in 1975.

Discography

With Jack McDuff

With Duke Ellington

With Houston Person

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

WIth Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

With Buck Clayton

With Duke Ellington Orchestra / Mercer Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With King Curtis

With Louis Jordan

With Barbara Lewis

With Jesse Stone

With Houston Person

With Lucky Millinder

With Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

With Cootie Williams and His Orchestra

With Cootie Williams & Luis Russell

With Louis Jordan

With Lucky Millinder

With Red Prysock

With Duke Ellington

With Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With Pearl Bailey

With Bull Moose Jackson

With Lucky Thompson

With Duke Ellington

With Pearl Bailey

With Cozy Cole

With Kreators

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

With Jessye Norman

With Duke Ellington

With Duke Ellington

References

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