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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.
In 1929, Smith became an alto saxophonist for Jimmie Lunceford's band, becoming one of the main stars in the group. [3] In 1940, he led his own quintet as a side project. [ 4 ] His success with Lunceford had lost its charms by 1942, as he now wanted more pay and less travel. [ 3 ]
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 ...
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Thomas played alto sax under Hood and Henderson, but played tenor from the time he joined Stuff Smith's band in 1932. [ 2 ] Thomas played with Jimmie Lunceford 's band from 1933 until the leader's death in 1947, often soloing and occasionally singing. [ 2 ]
Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, B. B. King, Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, The Tonight Show Band Musical artist Eugene Edward " Snooky " Young (February 3, 1919 – May 11, 2011) [ 2 ] was an American jazz trumpeter .
12 – Jimmie Lunceford, American alto saxophonist and bandleader (born 1902). December. 7 – Austin Wylie, American jazz bandleader (born 1893). Unknown date. Cee Pee Johnson, American drummer and vocalist (born 1915).
After working with Lunceford, Buckner primarily played locally in Detroit, where he worked into the 1970s. His activities included small jazz combos, work in the Motown studios, and co-leading a big band with Jimmy Wilkins, Ernie Wilkins's brother. He toured Europe in 1975, and also appeared in the New McKinney's Cotton Pickers that decade.