By Eddy Determeyer
ISBN-10: 047203359X
ISBN-13: 9780472033591
ISBN-10: 0472115537
ISBN-13: 9780472115532
"The first distinct examine of 1 of the swing era's most crucial bands and the 1st biography of its chief, Jimmie Lunceford. it is a such a lot welcome and demanding contribution to the literature of jazz, to our figuring out of an essential interval in jazz heritage, and to the song of an excellent and specified ensemble that was once emblematic of the swing era."---Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz reviews, Rutgers college, and writer of residing with Jazz"We have been extra well known than Benny Goodman! We have been the 1st black band that performed the Paramount Theater, downtown big apple. now not Duke Ellington, now not count number Basie. Six weeks in a row, 4 or 5 exhibits day-by-day, and it used to be packed on a daily basis, humans lining up round the nook always! lets outdraw any band within the country."---Gerald Wilson"Jimmie Lunceford used to be a key swing-era determine, and no e-book covers his biography and song like this one does. Grounded in years of study and encouraged through the writer's love of his topic, the e-book fills a severe hole within the jazz literature and may be crucial analyzing for all swing aficionados."---Jeffrey Magee, affiliate Professor of Musicology, collage of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and writer of The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and large Band Jazz"It was once Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra that encouraged me to develop into a musician. i used to be 11 years previous on the time. whilst I heard that band play I acknowledged to myself, 'That's for me. i need to turn into a musician.' I nonetheless get encouraged whilst I take heed to a few of their recordings. The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra is among the nice jazz orchestras of all time."---Horace Silver"Jimmie Lunceford has the simplest of all bands. Duke is excellent, Basie is striking, yet Lunceford tops them both."---Glenn MillerIn the Nineteen Thirties, swing song reigned, and the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra was once the most well liked and hippest allure at the black dance circuits. recognized for its impeccable visual appeal and infectious rhythms, Lunceford's team was once capable of out-swing and outdraw any band. For ten consecutive years, they have been the best-loved appeal at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. The group's hit recordings offered within the millions, and Jimmie Lunceford's band rivaled Ellington's for attractiveness within the African American group. Jimmie Lunceford used to be additionally an innovator, raising big-band showmanship to an paintings and introducing such novel tools because the electrical guitar and bass. The band's preparations, written via Sy Oliver, Edwin Wilcox, Gerald Wilson, Billy Moore, Jr., and Tadd Dameron, have been bold and ahead having a look, influencing generations of big-band writers.Rhythm Is Our company lines the improvement of the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra from its child days as a highschool band in Memphis to its record-breaking excursions around the usa, Canada, and Europe. The publication additionally unveils Lunceford's romantic but ill-fated involvement with Yolande Du Bois, daughter of recognized author and opinion chief W.E.B. Du Bois. And via reconstructing Lunceford's final day, the ebook deals a glimpse into the mysteries surrounding the leader's premature loss of life. this is often crucial analyzing for someone drawn to the heritage and legacy of swing.Eddy Determeyer has been a contract song journalist for greater than 3 many years. In 1984 Determeyer wrote a seven-part sequence on Jimmie Lunceford for the Dutch magazine Jazz Nu. Determeyer has written hundreds of thousands of articles on track for a number of Dutch guides and is the writer of numerous books. He at present produces the vacation for Hipsters radio exhibit for Dutch station Concertzender.Cover photograph: Lunceford brass part, ca. past due 1936. Left to correct: Paul Webster, Eddie Durham, Sy Oliver, Elmer Crumbley, Eddie Tompkins, Russell Bowles. (Bertil Lyttkens assortment)
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19 Willie Smith was one of the loudest alto saxophonists in the history of jazz. Lunceford’s reeds had no trouble competing with the shouting brass. 20 Though Willie Smith supplied a couple of very interesting arrangements—Mood Indigo is a case in point—he later lost interest in writing charts. Eddie Wilcox, on the other hand, became a proli‹c writer. He probably produced as many arrangements for the band as Sy Oliver. The bulk of the book during the last few years of the band’s existence was written by Wilcox.
Versatility was and is one of his strong qualities. Fisk could choose no wiser, nor give herself more honor than by choosing and honoring one of her favorites. ” The very ‹rst act of the newly elected president was tossing a ‹eld goal in the very ‹rst minute of the basketball match between the Tennessee State Collegians and the Bulldogs clad in Fisk’s gold and blue. Fisk won that ‹rst 20 RHYTHM IS OUR BUSINESS game of the intercollegiate basketball season 39 to 14. One week later, the Fisk Bulldogs beat Walden College; Lunceford, John Harris, and Captain Bragg were praised and dubbed the “Three Musketeers” by the Herald ’s Walter P.
I remember it clear as a bell. Later, in 1951–52, when he led Duke Ellington’s reeds, Willie Smith used to upset his colleagues by insisting on regular section rehearsals. This was a regimen unknown to Duke’s band. But Ellington’s saxes really did seem to shine with a new sparkle, sounding fuller and richer, during the time Willie was in the orchestra. As a soloist, Willie Smith was a stylist as well. Willie’s raucous, yet ›uent approach and his big sound were an inspiration for both Earl Bostic and Charlie Parker.
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