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Re: Jimmie Lunceford

#46 Post by lipi » Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:02 pm

trev wrote:
lipi wrote:Thanks for all the suggestions!
Let us know how it goes. Maybe post a playlist?
Hahahaha! Of course not! Why do you think I revived this thread? It was to extract information from you guys, not to give back!

(I'll try to remember. Ping the thread if I'm an idiot and forget?)

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Re: Jimmie Lunceford

#47 Post by lipi » Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:41 pm

This was at a venue called "For Dancers Only", so the Lunceford theme was awfully appropriate, even without the his-birthday-is-tomorrow excuse. I threw in the one Monty Alexander track I sometimes play, since he shares a birthday with Lunceford. I resisted the urge to play any Kenny G (whose birthday is on the fifth, the actual date of the dance). The fifth (or, actually, the first Friday in June) was also "National Doughnut Day" in the U.S. I thought this was some cheap stunt promulgated by the Fried Food Lobby, but it turns out to have some bizarre link to the Salvation Army and...well, whatever. You can go read Wikipedia. It's really not relevant to this post, but I felt like sharing.

I had some trouble with VLC after upgrading to OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) this week, so I didn't preview at all. (Oops. I only made sure my iTunes library survived after the upgrade--I should have checked other things, too, obviously.) Result was that I didn't play a few Lunceford things I wasn't certain about and that I mostly stuck to things I new well or had listened to that week.

Things people asked about with excitement: Ella's "I Love Being Here with You", Ella's "All of Me", Gene Harris's "This Little Light of Mind", and Dizzy's "On the Sunny Side of the Street". One of these days, someone will ask about, you know, the actual *theme* with excitement. It will happen, I tell you.

#. Title; Artist; Year; Album; BPM
1. For Dancers Only; Jimmie Lunceford; 1937; Rhythm Is Our Business; 148
2. Okay for Baby; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1940; 1940 (Lang-Worth Transcriptions); 160
3. Here We Go Again; Glenn Miller; 1942; The Spirit Is Willing; 174
4. Solid As a Rock; Ella Fitzgerald; 1950; 1950; 151
5. Twenty-Four Robbers; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1941; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions; 140
6. It's Only a Shanty in Old Shanty Town; Edmond Hall Quartet with Teddy Wilson; 1944; Piano Solos/Teddy Wilson, Edmond Hall Quartet With Teddy Wilson 152
7. Dunkin' a Doughnut Andy Kirk; 1938; An Anthology of Big Band Swing 1930-1955; 171
8. State and Tioga Stomp; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1940 1940 (Lang-Worth Transcriptions); 185
9. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me; Sidney Bechet and his Hot Six 1951; Complete 1939-1951 Blue Note Master Takes 136
10. Le Jazz Hot; Jimmie Lunceford 1939; Lunceford Special 1939-40 146
11. Sent for You Yesterday; Count Basie; 1938; The Complete Decca Recordings; 166
12. Madame Dynamite; Eddie Condon & his Orchestra; 1933; Eddie Condon: The Classic Sessions 1927-1949; 183
13. Fiddle's Blues; Eddie South et Stéphane Grappelly; 1937; Django Reinhardt & His American Friends: Complete Sessions 211
14. I Love Being Here with You; Ella Fitzgerald; 1964; Ella at Juan-Les Pins; 132
15. Rose Room; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1934; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions; 155
16. My Blue Heaven (take A, master); Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1935; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions 170
17. Christopher Columbus Maxine Sullivan; 1956; A Tribute to Andy Razaf; 153
18. Love Me or Leave Me; Nina Simone; 1965; Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings; 168
19. At the Jazz Band Ball; Bing Crosby; 1956; The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings 1954-56; 174
20. Battle Axe; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1940; 1940 (Lang-Worth Transcriptions); 205
21. Life Is Fine; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1942 The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions; 142
22. Splanky; Count Basie; 1966; Count Basie: Live at the Sands; 156
23. I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra; 1935; The Birth of Swing (1935-1936); 166
24. When Buddha Smiles; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra 1935; The Birth of Swing (1935-1936); 179
25. John Brown's Body; Monty Alexander; 1965; Alexander the Great; 129
26. My Home Is in a Southern Town; Don Ewell; 1957; Man Here Plays Fine Piano!; 147
27. Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho; Kid Ory & his Creole Jazz Band; 1946; 1944/1946; 158
28. Shake That Thing; Turk Murphy's Jazz Band; Jazz Band Ball; 180
29. Ain't She Sweet; Jimmie Lunceford; 1939; Lunceford Special 1939-40; 144
30. Sugar Louis Armstrong; 1946; The Complete RCA Victor Recordings; 139
31. My Baby's Sweet; The Swing Session; 1999; The Swing Session; 160
32. He Ain't Got Rhythm; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1937; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions; 178
33. Stomp It Off Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1934; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions; 192
34. All of Me; Ella Fitzgerald; 1983; The Concert Years; 128
35. Krum Elbow Blues; Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra 1938; Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion and Okeh Small Group Sessions 148
36. Drop Me Off in Harlem; Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington; 1961 The Great Summit; 164
37. Keep the Rhythm Going (Keep that Rhythm Going); Mills Blue Rhythm Band; 1934; Mills Blue Rhythm Band: 1933-1936; 173
38. Blackstick; Noble Sissle's Swingsters; 1938; Pre-War Classic Sides (JSP); 186
39. 't Ain't What You Do; Jimmie Lunceford; 1939; Lunceford Special 1939-40; 160
40. Black and Tan Fantasie; Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1934; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions; 98
41. Delta Bound; The New Orleans Cotton Mouth Kings; 2009; New Orleans Cotton Mouth Kings: Smokin' Swing from New Orleans 124
42. On the Sunny Side of the Street; The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet; 1951; The Champ; 137
43. Four or Five Times (take A, master); Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra; 1935; The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions 141
44. Chocko Mo Feendo Hey; Danny Barker; 1947; Jazz à la Creole;
45. Rug Cutter's Swing; Glenn Miller; 1940; The Spirit Is Willing 165
46. Swingin' at the Swanee Shore; Sharkey Bonano and His Sharks of Rhythm; Swingin' Swanee's Wild Party; 189
47. Weary Way Blues (78 track); Bechet-Nicholas Blue Five; 1946; The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Sidney Bechet 112
48. My Baby Just Cares for Me; Nina Simone; ; Jazz Masters 17; 119
49. Get It Southern Style; Barney Bigard and His Jazzopators 1937; Duke Ellington: The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion and Okeh Small Group Sessions 123
50. Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Duke Ellington; 1966; The Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington Côte d'Azur Concerts on Verve; 125
51. My Blue Heaven; Cozy Cole's Big Seven; 1953; Coleman Hawkins in the '50's: "Body and Soul" Revisited; 131
52. My Melancholy Baby; Sidney Bechet Trio 1952; Trésors Sidney Bechet (Vogue Intégrale) 133
53. This Little Light of Mine; Gene Harris 1995; The Best of the Concord Years; 144
54. Jump through the Window; Roy Eldridge & His Orchestra; 1943 Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz Trumpet Giant, Disc 2: The Gasser 151
55. Moten Swing; Kansas City Band 1995; Kansas City: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; 159
56. For Dancers Only; Jimmie Lunceford & his Harlem Express; 1944; The Uncollected Jimmie Lunceford and his Harlem Express, 1944: Live at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri 175

Go home, people.
57. The Doughnut Song; Burl Ives; 1950; A Twinkle In Your Eye
58. Low (feat T-Pain); Flo Rida; 2008; Mail on Sunday [Explicit];

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Re: Jimmie Lunceford

#48 Post by trev » Sun Jun 07, 2015 7:22 pm

^ I would have loved to dance to this. Thanks for posting.

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