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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.
Trummy Young (right) and Jimmie Lunceford, early 1940s Young, left, shaking hands with Louis Armstrong at a 1955 concert in Oslo. James "Trummy" Young (January 12, 1912 – September 10, 1984) [1] was an American trombonist in the swing era. He established himself as a star during his 12 years performing with Louis Armstrong in Armstrong's All ...
Born in Method, North Carolina, Wilcox studied at Fisk University, where he met Jimmie Lunceford. He played with Lunceford in college bands and then professionally in the mid-1920s. In 1929 he became the main arranger for Lunceford's ensemble, and remained so until Lunceford's death in 1947. [1]
He worked in St. Louis, Missouri early in the next decade with Dewey Jackson and Fate Marable, then joined the band of Jimmie Lunceford in 1932. He recorded with Lunceford often and remained a member of his orchestra until Lunceford's death in 1947. [2] Caruthers played with Joe Thomas and Ed Wilcox. He later worked as a milkman at Meyers ...
Thomas played with Jimmie Lunceford's band from 1933 until the leader's death in 1947, often soloing and occasionally singing. [2] After Lunceford died, Thomas and Ed Wilcox co-led his ghost band until Thomas left to form his own septet.
Young was lead trumpeter of the Jimmie Lunceford band from 1939 to 1942. He played with Count Basie (three stints totalling eight years), Gerald Wilson and Lionel Hampton, among others, and was an original member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band.
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.
In 1940, The Dandridge Sisters performed the Jimmie Lunceford song "Minnie the Moocher Is Dead". Minnie is referenced in Clarence Williams and His Orchestra's 1934 song "Jerry the Junker": "Well, you've heard about Minnie the Moocher/ And about Smokey Joe / Gather 'round friends and I'll tell you a tale / Of a cat you oughta know".