Editing Tommy Ladnier (section)

==Career==
Ladnier joined pianist [[Sam Wooding]] in 1925<ref name="All-Music-Guide-to-Jazz 1998" /> for an extensive tour (Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and Russia).<ref name="Dr-Jazz-Mag 2009 Jun" /><ref name="Lindström-Vernhettes 2009" />

{{main|Chocolate Kiddies 1925 European tour}}

This orchestra recorded in Berlin. He returned to New York and became the hot soloist for the [[Fletcher Henderson]] orchestra from 1926–1927.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brothers|first=Thomas|title=Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|year=2014|isbn=978-0-393-06582-4|location=New York, NY|pages=278–79}}</ref> He returned to the Sam Wooding Orchestra for another tour<ref name="All-Music-Guide-to-Jazz 1998" /> (Germany, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy, and France), then left in January 1929 to work freelance in Paris. A short tour with dancer Harry Fleming brought him to Spain, where he met dancer [[Louis Douglas]] and joined him shortly in November 1929 in Paris, acting as orchestra leader. He again free-lanced in Paris until summer 1930 when he joined the [[Noble Sissle]] dance band, performing in Paris and London.

He returned to U.S. at the end of 1930 and stayed with Sissle until January 1932. The Sissle orchestra made some recordings in London and New York. Back in America in 1932, Ladnier and [[Sidney Bechet]] formed the New Orleans Feetwarmers. During the Depression, they tried to run a tailor shop in Harlem, but neither was interested in business. Ladnier left New York and played in the east, sometimes giving trumpet lessons. For a year, he lived in [[Stamford, Connecticut]].

In 1938, [[Hugues Panassié]], a French critic and record producer who met Ladnier in Paris in 1930, visited New York. He found Ladnier and recorded the Panassié Sessions with Sidney Bechet and [[Mezz Mezzrow]].<ref name="All-Music-Guide-to-Jazz 1998" /> Ladnier and Bechet participated in the first ''[[From Spirituals to Swing]]'' concert arranged by [[John Hammond (record producer)|John Hammond]] in December 1938.

Ladnier's last [[studio recording]] was on February 1, 1939, in [[New York City|New York]] as a sideman with singer [[Rosetta Crawford]] [[:de:Rosetta Crawford|(de)]] accompanied by James P. Johnson's Hep Cats ([[Decca Records|Decca]] 7584). With [[James P. Johnson|Johnson]] (1894–1955) on piano, his sidemen were [[Teddy Bunn]] (1909–1978) (guitar); [[Elmer James]] (1910–1954) (double bass); and [[Zutty Singleton]] (1898–1975) (drums).<ref name="Rust 1978" />