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The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival was founded by Bro. Ronald Cortez Herd II (aka 'R2C2H2 Tha Artivist') in 2007 with the aim of increasing recognition of Lunceford's contribution to jazz, particularly in Memphis, Tennessee.
Entertaining a predominantly white clientele, it was known for its raucous floor shows featuring gyrating black dancers accompanied by high-energy jazz bands led by the likes of Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, and Lucky Millinder. In 1954 the Paradise Club merged with Club Harlem under joint ownership.
Tina Dixon, 1946. Tina Dixon (born Augustine Dickson; October 7, 1913 – November 10, 2004) was an American R&B singer, 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 King Records in the 1940s.
Harold "Ox" Oxley born in Leeds, England, is a colleague of Indiana who broke off contact with him in 1937 while searching for the skulls. [111] Both Ox and Indiana studied under Abner Ravenwood. Ox was a close friend of Ravenwood's daughter, Marion, and hence became a surrogate father for her son Mutt, following the death of Mutt's stepfather.
The Widespread Depression Orchestra was a nine-piece jazz ensemble founded in 1972 at Vermont's Marlboro College.. Initially, the group played 1950s style R&B and early rock and roll with guitars, piano, sax, bass guitar, drums, and a vocalist, but by the middle of the 1970s was operating as a big band revival group, in the style of the bands of Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Duke Ellington ...
Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" is a song written by jazz musicians Melvin "Sy" Oliver and James "Trummy" Young.It was first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Lunceford, Harry James, and Ella Fitzgerald, [1] and again the same year by Nat Gonella and His Georgians.
May 23—Just before ordering Jimmy Harold Clark, 62, to serve a maximum 40 years in prison at 100% for Clark's December conviction for rape of a child, Judge Wesley Bray had some words for the ...
Jimmie Lunceford's two-sided platter was recorded on December 22, 1941, and released on Decca 4125 in January. [6] [16] Starting January 31, 1942, it ran 10 weeks on the BS chart, peaking at #4. [18] The Cab Calloway recording was released by OKeh Records as catalog number 6422.