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13938731 | Play | For Dancers Only | 03:15 Tools | |
13938732 | Play | Organ Grinder's Swing | 50:33 Tools | |
13938733 | Play | Rhythm Is Our Business | 03:14 Tools | |
13938738 | Play | Margie | 47:55 Tools | |
13938737 | Play | Stratosphere | 02:14 Tools | |
13938734 | Play | 'T'aint What You Do | 03:04 Tools | |
13938736 | Play | Mood Indigo | 02:53 Tools | |
13938735 | Play | Stomp It Off | 03:17 Tools | |
13938755 | Play | Swingin' Uptown | 02:39 Tools | |
13938747 | Play | Dream Of You | 03:21 Tools | |
13938739 | Play | My Blue Heaven | 03:12 Tools | |
13938749 | Play | Uptown Blues | 50:33 Tools | |
13938748 | Play | Four Or Five Times | 03:04 Tools | |
13938751 | Play | Miss Otis Regrets | 02:43 Tools | |
13938743 | Play | White Heat | 02:29 Tools | |
13938744 | Play | Harlem Shout | 02:56 Tools | |
13938767 | Play | Sophisticated Lady | 03:06 Tools | |
13938742 | Play | Rose Room | 03:00 Tools | |
13938766 | Play | Because You're You | 03:23 Tools | |
13938740 | Play | I'm Nuts About Screwy Music | 03:06 Tools | |
13938753 | Play | Black And Tan Fantasy | 02:46 Tools | |
13938774 | Play | Nana | 03:05 Tools | |
13938784 | Play | Sleepy Time Gal | 03:09 Tools | |
13938745 | Play | Easter Parade | 02:42 Tools | |
13938741 | Play | Flaming Reeds And Screaming Brass | 03:00 Tools | |
13938763 | Play | Rain | 03:11 Tools | |
13938818 | Play | He Ain't Got Rhythm | 02:43 Tools | |
13938812 | Play | Jazznocracy | 02:42 Tools | |
13938758 | Play | While Love Lasts | 03:07 Tools | |
13938781 | Play | Runnin' Wild | 03:10 Tools | |
13938811 | Play | Avalon | 03:06 Tools | |
13938750 | Play | I'm Walking Through Heaven with You | 03:14 Tools | |
13938800 | Play | For Dancers Only [1937] | 02:40 Tools | |
13938795 | Play | Shake Your Head (From Side To Side) | 02:44 Tools | |
13938816 | Play | Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down | 03:21 Tools | |
13938780 | Play | You Let Me Down | 02:49 Tools | |
13938819 | Play | Living From Day To Day | 03:04 Tools | |
13938768 | Play | The Melody Man | 03:03 Tools | |
13938771 | Play | (If I Had) Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes | 03:04 Tools | |
54300160 | Play | Running a Temperature | 03:12 Tools | |
13938815 | Play | Count Me Out | 03:12 Tools | |
13938798 | Play | Bird Of Paradise | 03:15 Tools | |
13938848 | Play | Hittin' The Bottle | 03:05 Tools | |
13938854 | Play | Charmaine | 02:52 Tools | |
13938770 | Play | Solitude | 03:12 Tools | |
13938825 | Play | Swanee River | 02:45 Tools | |
13938796 | Play | Me And The Moon | 03:05 Tools | |
13938762 | Play | Rhapsody Junior | 03:18 Tools | |
13938817 | Play | Babs | 03:07 Tools | |
54300159 | Play | Slumming on Park Avenue | 02:49 Tools | |
13938794 | Play | Oh Boy | 03:09 Tools | |
13938802 | Play | Call It Anything (It Wasn't Love) | 03:19 Tools | |
13938760 | Play | Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) | 02:55 Tools | |
13938801 | Play | Mandy | 02:54 Tools | |
13938775 | Play | Belgium Stomp | 02:31 Tools | |
13938834 | Play | Thunder | 03:02 Tools | |
13938814 | Play | Annie Laurie | 03:10 Tools | |
13938777 | Play | The Best Things In Life Are Free | 03:22 Tools | |
13938829 | Play | Jealous | 03:00 Tools | |
13938807 | Play | Linger Awhile | 02:33 Tools | |
13938820 | Play | I'll See You in My Dreams | 02:44 Tools | |
13938779 | Play | Blue Blazes | 02:52 Tools | |
13938785 | Play | Oh Why, Oh Why | 02:51 Tools | |
13938788 | Play | I've Only Myself To Blame | 02:48 Tools | |
13938765 | Play | Honest and Truly | 03:00 Tools | |
13938778 | Play | I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now) | 02:47 Tools | |
13938805 | Play | I Can't Escape From You | 02:59 Tools | |
13938836 | Play | On The Beach At Bali-Bali | 02:58 Tools | |
13938756 | Play | The Lonesome Road | 02:33 Tools | |
13938752 | Play | You're Just A Dream | 02:53 Tools | |
13938754 | Play | Baby Won't You Please Come Home? | 02:52 Tools | |
54300158 | Play | Blues In The Night | 02:43 Tools | |
13938821 | Play | 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) | 03:06 Tools | |
13938806 | Play | I Love You | 02:48 Tools | |
13938843 | Play | You Can Fool Some of the People (Some of the Time) | 02:23 Tools | |
13938853 | Play | I Want The Waiter (With The Water) | 02:45 Tools | |
13938776 | Play | Sassin' The Boss | 02:47 Tools | |
13938790 | Play | Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) | 02:39 Tools | |
13938808 | Play | Shoemaker's Holiday | 02:53 Tools | |
13938803 | Play | Lunceford Special | 02:48 Tools | |
13938804 | Play | Posin' | 03:01 Tools | |
13938837 | Play | Well, All Right Then | 02:43 Tools | |
13938791 | Play | You Set Me On Fire | 02:39 Tools | |
13938773 | Play | Think Of Me, Little Daddy | 02:44 Tools | |
13938822 | Play | Coquette | 03:12 Tools | |
13938799 | Play | I'll Take The South | 02:39 Tools | |
13938792 | Play | Mixup | 02:21 Tools | |
13938850 | Play | Blues In The Groove | 02:33 Tools | |
13938757 | Play | What's This Thing Called Swing? | 02:28 Tools | |
13938924 | Play | Hell's Bells | 03:08 Tools | |
54300165 | Play | Breakfast Ball | 02:59 Tools | |
13938746 | Play | Organ Grinder’s Swing | 02:38 Tools | |
13938797 | Play | Ain't She Swwet? | 02:29 Tools | |
54300163 | Play | Remember When | 02:59 Tools | |
13938809 | Play | Who Did You Meet Last Night? | 02:37 Tools | |
13938841 | Play | Rainin' | 03:00 Tools | |
54300164 | Play | Chillun, Get Up | 02:59 Tools | |
13938789 | Play | My Last Affair | 02:48 Tools | |
54300168 | Play | Unsophisticated Sue | 03:11 Tools | |
54300167 | Play | Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet | 03:14 Tools | |
13938831 | Play | Pigeon Walk | 02:39 Tools | |
13938810 | Play | Chillun' Get Up | 03:10 Tools | |
54300161 | Play | T'Ain't What'cha Do, It's the Way How'cha Do It | 03:08 Tools | |
54300162 | Play | Ragging the Scale | 02:21 Tools | |
13938832 | Play | Le Jazz Hot | 02:42 Tools | |
54300166 | Play | Stardust | 03:14 Tools | |
54300169 | Play | Chillun Get Up | 03:11 Tools | |
13938826 | Play | Bugs Parade | 02:29 Tools | |
13938839 | Play | By The River Sainte Marie | 03:14 Tools | |
54300171 | Play | Here Goes (A Fool) | 03:11 Tools | |
87449956 | Play | Rhythm Is Our Business (1st Take) | 02:29 Tools | |
13938823 | Play | Down By The Old Mill Stream | 02:56 Tools | |
13938892 | Play | Cheatin' On Me | 02:47 Tools | |
13938868 | Play | Frisco Fog | 03:10 Tools | |
54300172 | Play | The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down | 03:11 Tools | |
13938881 | Play | Yard Dog Mazurka | 03:14 Tools | |
13938838 | Play | It Had To Be You | 03:11 Tools | |
13938871 | Play | T'ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) | 03:05 Tools | |
13938918 | Play | Please Say The Word | 02:41 Tools | |
13938878 | Play | Blue Afterglow | 03:14 Tools | |
13938869 | Play | It's Time To Jump And Shout | 02:53 Tools | |
13938890 | Play | You Ain't Nowhere | 02:56 Tools | |
54300176 | Play | Sweet Rhythm | 02:29 Tools | |
54300174 | Play | Leavin' Me | 02:29 Tools | |
13938846 | Play | I'm Alone With You | 02:40 Tools | |
13938764 | Play | I Ain't Gonna Study War No More | 02:55 Tools | |
13938783 | Play | Posin' - Original | 02:59 Tools | |
13938893 | Play | The Love Nest | 03:00 Tools | |
54300173 | Play | Flight Of The Jitterbug | 03:11 Tools | |
13938913 | Play | The First Time I Saw You | 02:45 Tools | |
13938886 | Play | Honey, Keep Your Mind On Me | 03:08 Tools | |
13938916 | Play | 'Tain't What You Do | 03:07 Tools | |
13938851 | Play | Whatcha Know Joe? | 02:40 Tools | |
54300170 | Play | Battle Axe | 03:01 Tools | |
13938852 | Play | Minnie the Moocher Is Dead | 02:29 Tools | |
54300175 | Play | 'Tain't Good (Like A Nickle Made Of Wood) | 02:29 Tools | |
13938905 | Play | My Melancholy Baby | 03:03 Tools | |
13938847 | Play | Life Is Fine | 02:41 Tools | |
13938844 | Play | I'm In An Awful Mood | 02:48 Tools | |
54300181 | Play | Swingin' On C | 02:41 Tools | |
54300182 | Play | Like a Ship at Sea | 03:10 Tools | |
13938898 | Play | Barefoot Blues | 02:42 Tools | |
13938906 | Play | Pavanne | 02:46 Tools | |
13938769 | Play | 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It) | 03:01 Tools | |
54300178 | Play | (This Is) My Last Affair | 02:56 Tools | |
13938923 | Play | I Got It | 02:54 Tools | |
13938845 | Play | Monotony In Four Flats | 02:52 Tools | |
54300180 | Play | Okay For Baby | 02:56 Tools | |
13938859 | Play | Strictly Instrumental | 02:36 Tools | |
13938883 | Play | I'm Laughing Up My Sleeve (Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha) | 02:54 Tools | |
13938879 | Play | Let's Try Again | 02:52 Tools | |
13938888 | Play | Put It Away | 02:40 Tools | |
13938786 | Play | Well, All Right, Then | 02:41 Tools | |
87449957 | Play | Organ Grinders Swing | 02:35 Tools | |
54300177 | Play | In Dat Mornin' | 02:29 Tools | |
13938914 | Play | Ain't She Sweet? | 02:29 Tools | |
13938813 | Play | Pretty Eyes | 02:42 Tools | |
54300179 | Play | Blue Prelude | 02:56 Tools | |
54300183 | Play | Impromptu | 03:03 Tools | |
13938885 | Play | Twenty-Four Robbers | 03:12 Tools | |
13938919 | Play | Rock It For Me | 02:38 Tools | |
13938863 | Play | Siesta At The Fiesta | 03:00 Tools | |
13938917 | Play | Teasin' Tessie Brown | 02:54 Tools | |
54300189 | Play | Red Wagon | 02:35 Tools | |
54300187 | Play | I Had a Premonition | 02:52 Tools | |
54300185 | Play | Flamingo | 02:54 Tools | |
13938856 | Play | Le Jazz Hot - Original | 02:41 Tools | |
54300188 | Play | Hi Spook | 02:35 Tools | |
13938849 | Play | I Wanta Hear Swing Songs | 02:57 Tools | |
54300192 | Play | Peace And Love For All (Prayer For Moderns) | 02:39 Tools | |
13938857 | Play | Wham (Re Bop Boom Bam) | 02:51 Tools | |
54300184 | Play | Buzz-Buzz-Buzz | 02:54 Tools | |
13938828 | Play | ‘Tain’t What You Do | 03:03 Tools | |
54300186 | Play | Keep Smilin', Keep Laughin', Be Happy | 02:48 Tools | |
13938884 | Play | The Honeydripper | 02:45 Tools | |
54300194 | Play | (You Take the East, Take the West, Take the North) I'LL TAKE THE SOUTH | 03:04 Tools | |
13938911 | Play | Blues In The Night - Part 1 | 02:39 Tools | |
13938899 | Play | Chopin's Prelude No. 7 | 02:49 Tools | |
54300190 | Play | Chocolate | 02:54 Tools | |
54300198 | Play | Ain't She Sweet | 02:49 Tools | |
13938921 | Play | What's Your Story, Mornin' Glory? | 03:13 Tools | |
54300203 | Play | Who Did You Meet Last Night? | 02:49 Tools | |
13938920 | Play | Time's A-Wastin' | 02:35 Tools | |
54300191 | Play | I Dream A Lot About You | 02:38 Tools | |
54300193 | Play | You're Always In My Dreams | 02:39 Tools | |
54300201 | Play | Gone | 02:49 Tools | |
13938787 | Play | 'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) - Original | 03:04 Tools | |
13938761 | Play | White Heat - DJ Wuthe am Grammophon | 02:35 Tools | |
54300200 | Play | Easy Street | 02:49 Tools | |
54300199 | Play | This Is My Confession To You | 02:49 Tools | |
54300202 | Play | Knock Me A Kiss | 02:49 Tools | |
87449958 | Play | Star Dust | 02:49 Tools | |
87449964 | Play | Time's a Wastin' | 02:39 Tools | |
13938873 | Play | 'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It) (Album Version) | 03:01 Tools | |
87449959 | Play | Leaving Me | 02:49 Tools | |
54300206 | Play | I'm Losing My Mind (Because Of You) | 02:49 Tools | |
54300195 | Play | Back Door Stuff - Part 1 | 03:04 Tools | |
54300197 | Play | Organ Grinder's Song | 02:51 Tools | |
13938840 | Play | Sonata By L. Van Beethoven ("Pathetique" Op. 13) | 03:17 Tools | |
54300196 | Play | Blues In The Night - Part 2 | 02:51 Tools | |
87449962 | Play | HERE GOES | 02:16 Tools | |
54300205 | Play | Jeep Rhythm | 02:49 Tools | |
54300204 | Play | I'm Gonna See My Baby | 02:49 Tools | |
89405607 | Play | Sweet Sue - Just You | 02:49 Tools | |
54300211 | Play | Call The Police | 03:04 Tools | |
54300212 | Play | I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town - Part 1 | 02:41 Tools | |
54300207 | Play | Back Door Stuff - Part 2 | 02:49 Tools | |
87449963 | Play | Dinah - Part I | 02:41 Tools | |
54300218 | Play | That Someone Must Be You | 03:10 Tools | |
54300208 | Play | Baby, Are You Kiddin'? | 03:13 Tools | |
89405608 | Play | Sweet Sue, Just You | 03:13 Tools | |
54300209 | Play | Tain't what you do | 02:16 Tools | |
87449961 | Play | ROSE ROOM (In Sunny Roseland) | 02:16 Tools | |
54300210 | Play | I'm In A Jam With Baby | 03:04 Tools | |
87449965 | Play | I Need A Lift | 03:17 Tools | |
13938855 | Play | I Want The Waiter (With The Water) - Original | 02:44 Tools | |
13938915 | Play | I'm Nuts About Screwy Music - DJ Wuthe am "Grammophon" | 03:04 Tools | |
89405609 | Play | I Wanna Hear Swing Songs | 03:04 Tools | |
54300217 | Play | It Had To Be You (1942) | 03:10 Tools | |
89405610 | Play | Well all right then | 03:10 Tools | |
13938910 | Play | I'll Take the South - DJ Wuthe am "Grammophon" | 02:41 Tools | |
54300220 | Play | Blues in the Night, Pt. 1, Pt. 2 | 03:10 Tools | |
13938833 | Play | Life Is Fine - Original | 02:39 Tools | |
54300213 | Play | Well Alright Then | 02:35 Tools | |
54300214 | Play | The Merry Go Round Broke Down | 03:17 Tools | |
87449966 | Play | Swinging Uptown | 03:17 Tools | |
89405611 | Play | Jazznocrazy | 03:17 Tools | |
13938903 | Play | Oh Boy - Original | 03:10 Tools | |
54300216 | Play | 'Taint What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) | 03:10 Tools | |
87449967 | Play | I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town - Part 2 | 03:10 Tools | |
87449960 | Play | Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? | 02:49 Tools | |
89405612 | Play | Raggin' the Scale | 02:49 Tools | |
87449968 | Play | Here goes (2) | 03:10 Tools | |
54300219 | Play | Twenty-Four Robbers - Original | 03:10 Tools |
James Melvin “Jimmie” Lunceford (June 6, 1902 – July 12, 1947) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era. Lunceford was born in Fulton, Mississippi. Little is known about his parents, though his father was a choirmaster in Warren, Ohio, before the family moved to Denver. He went to high school in Denver and studied music under Wilberforce J. Whiteman, father of Paul Whiteman, whose band was soon to acquire a national reputation. After high school he continued his studies at Fisk University. During 1922, Lunceford played alto saxophone in a local band led by George Morrison which included Andy Kirk, another musician destined for fame as a bandleader. In 1927, while teaching at Manassas High School in Memphis, Tennessee, he organized a student band, the Chickasaw Syncopators, whose name was changed to the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra when it began touring. Lunceford was the first high school band director in Memphis. This band recorded in 1927 and 1930. After a period of touring, the band accepted a booking at the Harlem nightclub The Cotton Club in 1934. The Cotton Club had already featured Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, who won their first widespread fame from their inventive shows for the Cotton Club’s all-white patrons. Lunceford’s orchestra, with their tight musicianship and often outrageous humor in their music and lyrics made an ideal band for the club, and Lunceford’s reputation began to steadily grow. Comedy and vaudeville played a distinct part in Lunceford’s presentation. Songs such as “Rhythm Is Our Business”, “I’m Nuts about Screwy Music”, “I Want the Waiter (With the Water)”, and “Four or Five Times” displayed a playful sense of swing, often through clever arrangements by trumpeter Sy Oliver and bizarre lyrics. Lunceford’s stage shows often included costumes, skits, and obvious jabs at mainstream white jazz bands, such as Paul Whiteman’s and Guy Lombardo’s. Despite the band’s comic veneer, Lunceford always maintained professionalism in the music befitting a former teacher; this professionalism paid off and during the apex of swing in the 1930s, the Orchestra was considered the equal of Duke Ellington’s, Earl Hines’ or Count Basie’s. This precision can be heard in such pieces as “Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)”, “Lunceford Special”, “For Dancers Only”, “Uptown Blues”, and “Stratosphere”. The band’s noted saxophone section was led by alto sax player Willie Smith. Lunceford often used a conducting baton to lead his band. The orchestra began recording for the Decca label and later signed with the Columbia subsidiary Vocalion in 1938. They toured Europe extensively in 1937, but had to cancel a second tour in 1939 because of the outbreak of World War II. Columbia dropped Lunceford in 1940 because of flagging sales. (Oliver departed the group before the scheduled European tour to take a position as an arranger for Tommy Dorsey). Lunceford returned to the Decca label. The orchestra appeared in the 1941 movie Blues in the Night. On July 12, 1947, while playing in Seaside, Oregon, Lunceford collapsed and died from cardiac arrest during an autograph session, aged 45. Allegations and rumors circulated that Jimmie had been poisoned by a fish-restaurant owner who was unhappy at having to serve a “Negro” in his establishment.[citation needed] This story is given credence by the fact other members of Lunceford’s band who ate at this restaurant were sickened within hours of the meal. He was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. Band members, notably Eddie Wilcox and Joe Thomas kept the band going for a time but finally had to break up the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra in 1949. In 1999, band-leader Robert Veen and a team of musicians set out to acquire permission to use the original band charts and arrangements of the Jimmie Lunceford canon. The Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Orchestra officially debuted in July 2005 at the North Sea Jazz Festival. The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival was founded in 2007 by Ron Herd II a.k.a. R2C2H2 Tha Artivist and Artstorian, with the aim of increasing recognition of Lunceford’s contribution to jazz, particularly in Memphis, Tennessee. The Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Awards was created by the Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival to honor exceptional musicians with Memphis ties as well as those who have dedicated their careers to excellence in music and music education. On July 19, 2009, a brass note was dedicated to Lunceford on Beale Street. Prior to Lunceford’s success on Decca (beginning September 1934), he made the following recordings: “In Dat Mornin’”/”Sweet Rhythm” (Victor V-38141)- recorded Memphis, June 6, 1930 “Flaming Reeds and Screaming Brass”/”While Love Lasts” (Columbia tests - not issued until the late 1960s on LP) - recorded New York, May 15, 1933 “Jazznocracy”/”Chillen”, Get Up (Victor 24522) “White Heat”/”Leaving Me” (Victor 24586) - both recorded New York, January 26, 1934 “Breakfast Ball”/”Here Goes” (Victor 24601) “Swingin’ Uptown”/”Remember When” (Victor 24669) - both recorded New York, March 20, 1934 The Decca recordings Stomp it Off (1934-1935 Decca recordings) (GRP CD) Swingsation (1935-1939 Decca recordings) (1998 GRP CD) Lunceford Special (1939 Columbia recordings) (ca 1975 Columbia LP) Rhythm is Our Business (1933-1940, both periods and record companies, successively) (ASV CD) For Dancers Only (GRP/Decca) (1994) Jukebox Hits: 1937-1947 (Acrobat) (2005) Life is Fine or Quadromania (Membran/Quadromania Jazz) (2006) Read more on Last.fm. 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