Word: lunceford
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...notice what was going on around him. And often enough it was the the funny side of things that got his attention, in beseiged Madrid for instance, where Franco broadcasted each day the Falangists' dinner menus to the hungry loyalists, and where he and his friends would play Jimmie Lunceford's "Organ Grinder's Swing" all night to drown out the noise of the bombing...
Tender Trap (Pablo Beltran orchestra; Victor). A high-swinging version of a low-swinging tune, recorded, of all places, in Mexico. The band sounds something like the old Lunceford band, with its happy-go-lucky saxes, its smooth trombones and its nice beat, but adds its own modern flavor...
...with a now all but forgotten outfit, e.g., Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller and Jimmy McPartland turn up in Ben Pollack and His Orchestra. Others from the '20s: Eddie Condon's Hot Shots, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers. From the '30s: Jimmie Lunceford and His Chickasaw Syncopators and the legendary Jimmy Yancey, who beats out eight beautiful blues and boogies. RCA engineers managed to clean up the old masters until the recorded sound is as smooth as last year's models...
When Bandleader Jimmie Lunceford died in 1947, his band was already something of a legend. Its trumpets could play with the fluency of flutes, its saxophones with the sweetness of strings. Moreover, the adventurous arrangements made music instead of noise. Columbia has now issued Lunceford Special, an LP containing eight characteristic numbers, from the early (1934), hectic White Heat to such sophisticated selections as Uptown Blues and Chopin's Prelude...
...years, earn around $10,000 apiece, and are settled family men with permanent homes around Los Angeles. This gives the Band of Renown a respectable pipe & slippers atmosphere, in contrast to the breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around the U.S. with their big bands, collecting frenzied worship. In 15 years the band business has settled down, and chunky Les Brown, who played his first dance date with a clarinet at 16, is one who saw the change coming...