Tommy Ladnier [SEP] cause of death
last recordings were with Mezz Mezzrow and singer Rosetta Crawford in February 1939.
Death.
He died of a heart attack in New York City at the age of 39 and was buried at Frederick Douglass Memorial in Staten Island.
External links.
- A short bio on Ladnier
Tommy Ladnier
Thomas James Ladnier (May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939) was an American jazz trumpeter. French jazz critic Hugues Panassié rated him second only to Louis Armstrong.
Early years.
Ladnier was born in Mandeville, Louisiana, across Lake Pontchartrainfrom New Orleans. He played in the local Independence Band led by clarinetist Isidore Fritz (a.k.a. Frick) beginning about 1914. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson sometimes played with this band and gave young Ladnier tuition. In 1917, he moved with his mother to Chicago