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Tommy Ladnier

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Tommy Ladnier (1900 - 1939) was a Jazz trumpeter. Clarinetist/writer Mezz Mezzrow rated him second only to Louis Armstrong.

Ladnier was born in Florenceville, Louisiana on May 28 1900, and moved to {{New Orleans in his youth. He eas influenced by early New Orleans trumpet/cornet players Bunk Johnson and Joe King Oliver. In the 1920s he moved to Chicago where he started making records. He toured Europe with Sam Wooding's band, then to New York to join the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, then Noble Sissle's Orchestra. He died in New York City on June 4, 1939.

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