Strictly Lunceford

Jimmy Lunceford - Strictly Lunceford

Strictly Lunceford
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Artist: Jimmy Lunceford
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-05-14
Music Label: Proper Box UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Chickasaw Stomp
  2. Memphis Rag
  3. In Dat Mornin'
  4. Sweet Rhythm
  5. Flaming Reeds And Screaming Brass
  6. While Love Lasts
  7. White Heat
  8. Jazznocracy
  9. Chillun, Get Up!
  10. Leaving Me
  11. Swingin' Uptown
  12. Breakfast Ball
  13. Here Goes (A Fool)
  14. Remember When
  15. Sophisticated Lady
  16. Mood Indigo
  17. Rose Room
  18. Black And Tan Fantasy
  19. Stratosphere
  20. Nana
  21. Miss Otis Regrets
  22. Unsophisticated Sue
  23. Stardust
  24. Dream Of You
  25. Stomp It Off
  26. Call It Anything (It Wasn't Love)
Music CD 2
  1. Because You're You
  2. Chillun, Get Up!
  3. Solitude
  4. Rain,
  5. Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down
  6. Jealous
  7. Rhythm Is Our Business
  8. I'm Walking Through Heaven With You
  9. Shake Your Head (From Side To Side)
  10. Sleepy-Time Gal
  11. Bird Of Paradise
  12. Runnin' Wild
  13. Four Or Five Times
  14. (If I Had) Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes
  15. Swanee River
  16. (You Take The East, Take The West, Take The North) I'll Take The South
  17. Avalon
  18. Hittin' The Bottle
  19. I'm Nuts About Screwy Music
  20. The Best Things In Life Are Free
  21. The Melody Man
  22. Organ Grinder's Swing
  23. On The Beach At Bali Bali
  24. Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
Music CD 3
  1. Harlem Shout
  2. Running A Temperature
  3. He Ain't Got Rhythm
  4. Slumming On Park Avenue
  5. Coquette
  6. The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
  7. Hell's Bells
  8. For Dancers Only
  9. Posin'
  10. The First Time I Saw You
  11. Pigeon Walk
  12. Annie Laurie
  13. Frisco Fog.
  14. Margie
  15. The Love Nest
  16. Down By The Old Mill Stream
  17. My Melancholy Baby
  18. Sweet Sue, Just You
  19. By The River Sainte Marie
  20. 'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
  21. Cheatin' On Me
  22. Le Jazz Hot
  23. Time's A-Wastin
  24. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home ?
  25. The Lonesome Road
  26. What Is This Thing Called Swing ?
Music CD 4
  1. Easter Parade
  2. Ain't She Sweet
  3. Well, All Right Then
  4. I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now)
  5. Belgium Stomp
  6. Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)
  7. Uptown Blues
  8. Lunceford Special
  9. What's Your Story Morning Glory
  10. I Got It
  11. Monotony In Four Flats
  12. Blue Prelude
  13. Twenty-Four Robbers
  14. Battle Axe
  15. Chocolate
  16. Flamingo
  17. Siesta At The Fiesta
  18. Hi Spook
  19. Yard Dog Mazurka
  20. Impromptu
  21. Blues In The Night, Pts 1 & 2
  22. Strictly Instrumental
  23. Knock Me A Kiss
  24. Back Door Stuff Pts 1 & 2
  25. The Honeydripper
  26. Cement Mixer

Music reviews of Strictly Lunceford

Music Review: Rhythm - Their Business...
Rating: 5 Stars

5 stars, yo! So obviously I like it a lot. It can't get less - not with all of the great things on it. But I have to admit this set leaves me a little sad. The Lunceford band was, by acclimation, the third-greatest black big band of the Swing Era, with Ellington and Basie fighting it out for no.'s 1 and 2. And I'm not going to argue. But they really hit the heights only a few times. Off the top of my head, I'd name For Dancers Only, Well All Right Then, Uptown Blues, 'Taint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It), Yard Dog Mazurka and a few more. There are some fascinating examples of excessive arranging chops - listen to Eddie Durham's arrangement of Hittin' The Bottle or Lunceford's own Stratosphere. There are some all - time Swing Era classics (Rhythm Is Our Business, Margie). There are some real curiosities (An Ellington composition - Bird of Paradise - never recorded by the Ellington band). But then there are many tracks which are really only OK at best. Lunceford hoed - or plowed - or something - a kind of middle ground. Duke and Basie's goals were always clear - the "voice" of those bands is unmistakable. But what was the Lunceford band, exactly? A "show" band? An arrangers band? It certainly wasn't a soloists band...

Gunther Schuller wrote an excellent chapter on the Lunceford band in his Swing Era book, although his Lunceford band and mine are not quite the same. Around 1939 the band seemed to streamline its style and get more interested in Urban Black Groove Music - never a favorite of Schuller's. In order to experience this side of this music, though, it's necessary to pick up the CD Jazz Hour - 3004 which contains stunning live performances of 'Taint What You Do and Well All Right Then. It is really a shame that more such performances either don't exist or haven't been issued. Once you've heard these tracks you'll realize what is missing here.

One thing that I don't like about Proper is that remastering doesn't seem to part of its plan. JSP boxes - which are also bargain priced - make such a big effort in this way. But the sound here, as on most Proper Boxes, is so haphazard. If you're really nerdy, you can recognize which original LP issue each track has been dubbed from. And there are a few different ones represented here, that's for sure.

So...Great arrangements by Sy Oliver, Eddie Durham, Eddie Wilcox, Gerald Wilson. Great playing by Willie Smith, Trummy Young, Jimmy Crawford. That 2-beat groove. The indomitable Snooky Young playing lead trumpet. Those classic vocal trios. Moments of great beauty. But a vague feeling of something incomplete hangs over the whole set. I love "entertainment" as much as the next guy. But sometimes I have the feeling that the need to entertain got in the way of this band's making the best music it was capable of.
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Description of Strictly Lunceford

2007 four CD box set from Proper. The Jimmie Lunceford band was one of the outstanding black big bands of the '30s and '40s. The 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". Proper.

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