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    Memphis, Tennessee, Lunceford organized a student band, the Chickasaw Syncopators, whose name was changed to the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. Under the...
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  • Lunceford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Lunceford (1934–2009), American football player Jimmie Lunceford (1902–1947), American...
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  • Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Jimmie Lunceford, and Django Reinhardt. Swing has its roots in 1920s dance music ensembles...
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  • Olympic medal Jimmie Johnson (born 1975), American race car driver Jimmie Lunceford (1902–1947), American jazz musician and bandleader Jimmie Mattern (1905–1988)...
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    of the era, including musicians Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant;...
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  • pioneers of the electric guitar in jazz. The orchestras of Bennie Moten, Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, and Glenn Miller took great benefit from his composing...
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  • being played by black bands led by such artists as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines, and Fletcher Henderson, and...
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    years, making many recordings when he was with Jimmie Lunceford and with his own band. With Lunceford, from 1933 to 1939, he recorded more than two dozen...
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  • Orchestra Loose Tubes – jazz, post-bop Joe Loss and His Orchestra Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra Humphrey Lyttelton Band Machito Magic City Jazz Orchestra...
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  • Oliver and James "Trummy" Young. It was first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Lunceford, Harry James, and Ella Fitzgerald, and again the same year by Nat Gonella...
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  • actress and comedian. She became a featured singer in swing bandleader Jimmie Lunceford's band early in her career and recorded for Excelsior, Aladdin, and...
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  • Oliver and James "Trummy" Young. It was first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Lunceford, Harry James, and Ella Fitzgerald. "If I Didn't Care" Written by Jack...
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    one hit with his version of "Margie", which he played and sang with Jimmie Lunceford's orchestra in 1937. During his years with Armstrong, Young modified...
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  • more often to "'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That Cha Do It)" by Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, or "Tuxedo Junction" by Erskine Hawkins. In fact...
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  • 1935 Hoosier Hot-Shots – 1936 Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra, vocal chorus by Sy Oliver, Trummy Young, & the Lunceford Trio – 1939 Bob Hannon & John...
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    Newsweek. 1933. Determeyer, Eddy (2008). Rhythm Is Our Business: Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express. University of Michigan Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780472033591...
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  • Fitzgerald 1935–37 501 Jimmie Lunceford 1930–34 502 Chick Webb 1929–34 503 Count Basie 1936–38 504 Count Basie 1938–39 505 Jimmie Lunceford 1934–35 506 Ella...
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  • clusters have not been restricted to the keyboard. In the 1930s, the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra's "Stratosphere" included ensemble clusters among an array...
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    #28006/#28007 1940 Jimmie Lunceford "Minnie the Moocher Is Dead" / "Ain't Going to Go to Study War No More" Columbia 78 rpm #26937A/#26938 1940 Jimmie Lunceford...
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  • Reggie Johnson at the Saratoga Club. Later in the decade he worked with Jimmie Lunceford before joining Fats Waller's band from 1938-1942, the association for...
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    City mayor Jimmy Walker. Artists who recorded on Majestic included: Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Prima, Bud Freeman, Slim Bryant, Eddy Howard, the Four Shades...
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  • and Hawaii, and recorded four tracks with well-known big band leader Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra: "You Ain't Nowhere", "Minnie the Moocher Is Dead"...
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  • (US) LeToya Luckett Lucky Ali LunchMoney Lewis (Kemosabe/Columbia) Jimmie Lunceford Cheryl Lynn MN8 M.I.A. Macklemore Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Magic Man...
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    musician Jimmie Lunceford. However, her father believed he was an unsuitable match. Defying her parents' wishes, she continued to see Lunceford for some...
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    Duke Ellington, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Jimmie Lunceford, Max Steiner, Victor Young, Aaron Copland, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota...
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    moved to New York City where Dixon, who was signed to perform with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, recommended that Collins perform with the orchestra when...
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  • Harry James, Les Brown, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, George Shearing, Jimmie Lunceford, Ray McKinley, Benny Carter, Louis Prima, Russ Morgan, Guy Lombardo...
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  • defined in terms of formal rhythmic devices, but according to the Jimmie Lunceford tune, "T'aint whatcha do, it's the way thatcha do it" (say it so it...
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    Quartet (1919). The song enjoyed a revival in the 1930s with versions by Jimmie Lunceford and by Bunny Berigan. Bing Crosby sang the song in the 1935 movie Mississippi...
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    artistic rights. In 1972, he joined Billy Moore Jr., arranger for Jimmie Lunceford. Moore clarified Webster's recording history to secure his royalties...
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