Lunceford

Refreshed within a year as The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, the outfit followed up with recordings for Decca.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 186 Phil Ramone 2011

After settling in Memphis to teach high school, Lunceford founded the student jazz ensemble the Chicksaw Syncopators and took it pro by 1930.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 186 Phil Ramone 2011

Dameron was a passable pianist, but he found his calling first as an arranger, then as a composer who crafted not just melodies and chords but fully-instrumented charts for Harlan Leonard's Kansas City Orchestra, then Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie.

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In 1947, a sudden heart attack took Lunceford at the much-too-early age of 45.

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The students are assigned iPads, a type of tablet computer, to use during class time, Lunceford said.

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If your only exposure to big band jazz has been to the white “sweet” orchestras that took the music of black arrangers such as Fletcher Henderson and cooled it down and straightened it out, check out Lunceford, whose motto and hit song was “Rhythm is Our Business.”

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There are also fine sketches of less glamorous but no less seminal figures, such as big-band leader Jimmie Lunceford, who introduced music education into Memphis's black public schools in the late 1920s.

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Yet a decade later, that once sentimental air had become a swinging staple of the big-band era, most famously in an ingenious arrangement for Jimmie Lunceford by Sy Oliver.

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For instance, his 1941 composition "Yard Dog Mazurka" written for the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra was a pivotal influence on the music of Stan Kenton, and Kenton's band, in turn, influenced multiple generations of jazz arrangers.

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The students are assigned iPads, a type of tablet computer, to use during class time, Lunceford said.

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