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| Strictly Lunceford |
| Label: Proper Boxes |
| Cat
No: PROPERBOX125 |
| Format: 4 CD Set |
| Genre: Jazz |
| Barcode: 805520021258 |
Release Date: 07/05/07 |
Along with the bands of Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, the Jimmie Lunceford band was one of the outstanding black big bands of the 1930s and 1940s. All achieved enormous popularity and a measure of commercial success during those years.
Yet while today the Fletcher Henderson band is primarily remembered for its significant breakthrough as a purveyor of extraordinary and, for their day, advanced performances of arranged big band music and for the boost Henderson’s arrangement gave to Benny Goodman’s career, Ellington and Basie are revered as major figures of jazz, few fans today remember much about Jimmie Lunceford, play his music or collect his records.
This relative lack of latter-day attention might be attributable to Lunceford's tragically early death in 1947 at the age of 45. But this alone cannot be the cause of Lunceford’s apparent dismissal from the collective memory of the jazz world.
In this respect the Lunceford band might have been a victim of its versatility, the band functioned as a show band, a dance band and a jazz band, serving a musical menu of novelty tunes, sentimental ballads, music for dancing and spectacular "Flag wavers".
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