Candy Johnson

tenor saxophone

Tenor saxophonist and bandleader, billed as Candy Johnson and his Peppermint Sticks; Barry recalls Charlie Parker coming to Detroit with Johnson’s band and thinks he may have sat in with them.

mentions: 3
recordings: 1
Barry speaking: 2

What Barry says

When Ben Sidran asks who Candy Johnson was, Barry calls him a very good musician, known as Candy Johnson and his Peppermint Sticks, and says he was last teaching somewhere in Ohio (the caption garbles the place).

Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York6:42 7:15

Barry thinks he may have sat in with Bird when Bird came to Detroit with Johnson’s band. Bird, he says, came with odd bands, more like rhythm-and-blues outfits, yet the local players around him all played above themselves.

Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York6:42 7:15 7:49

In his own words

I might have [sat in] with Bird when he played with Candy Johnson... Candy Johnson and his peppermint sticks. That’s what he was called. He was a very good musician.

Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York, various, 1987–2019. NPR interview with Ben Sidran, 1988, after Sidran asks who Johnson was 7:04 Watch on YouTube at 7:04

Bird came with odd kind of bands, they were more rhythm and blues bands. But he came with Candy Johnson and his [peppermint] sticks

Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York, various, 1987–2019. The same interview, on the bands Bird brought to Detroit 7:15 Watch on YouTube at 7:15

Every mention

3 moments in the recordings, 2 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.

Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York

various, 1987–2019

6:42
Barry
Barry may have sat in with Bird when Bird played with Candy Johnson, a very good musician.
Watch on YouTube at 6:42
6:42
Interviewer
Ben Sidran asks who Candy Johnson was.
Watch on YouTube at 6:42
7:15
Barry
Johnson was last teaching in Ohio; Bird came with odd, rhythm-and-blues-type bands, once with Johnson’s.
Watch on YouTube at 7:15

Method ideas nearby

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