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-- Legendary Swing Band Leader Glenn Miller

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The Purpose Of Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival:

To Honor And Bring Awareness To The Forgotten And Impressive Legacy And Achievements Of Jimmie Lunceford, The First High School Band Orchestra Leader/Conductor In The History Of The Memphis City Schools…Lunceford, A Fisk University Graduate, Was Hired As A Teacher Of English,Spanish And Physical Education At Manassas High School Back In The 1920s...He Also Served As The School's Baseball And Football Coach...He Started The First Memphis City Schools' Band/Orchestra With Money Out Of His Own Pocket And Donations From The Community... He Later Took His Band Of High School Students And Turned Them Into A Professional And Popular Local Memphis Band Known As The Chickasaw Syncopators… In the early 1930s Lunceford took his band to the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem, NY to take over as the house band for Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway…The group eventually became known as The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra…The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra would regularly broadcast live from the Cotton Club gaining a huge national audience…Jimmie Lunceford would constantly beat the great swing bands of his era in numerous “battle of the bands” contests including those led by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Chick Webb…The Lunceford Orchestra Was Known For Their Amazing Ensemble Play, Singing , Choreography And Overall Showmanship...They were known as The Harlem Express because of their huge African American following and was the top draw act at the world famous Apollo Theatre for 10 years...The Lunceford Orchestra was considered by many including Glenn Miller and Miles Davis to be one of if not the best swing band ever!!! Unfortunately, Jimmie Lunceford (after dying under mysterious circumstances on July 12, 1947 in Seaside, Oregon) has been forgotten by many in the Memphis Community for 61 years and counting… Jimmie Lunceford, the essence of a true teacher, never forgot about Memphis or Manassas High School and would constantly come back to talk to students at Manassas High School and hold free concerts despite being one of the most popular bandleaders in the country, Black or White… The purpose of this event is to bring awareness about Jimmie Lunceford and to instill community pride in the achievements and accomplishments of a native Memphian who never forgot Memphis…Jimmie Lunceford’s remains are interred at the famous Elmwood Cemetery along with his wonderful legacy...We @ the Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival look forward to changing that same old sad song & swinging a new brighter tune!!!

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Jazznocracily Yours, Tha Artivist 

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Tha Artivist Salutes Jimmie Lunceford

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Tha Artivist Salutes Jimmie Lunceford

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper

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"Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper" 

(Interview Conducted December 2008) 

Dr. Jack T. Cooper Is The Associate Professor & Director Of Jazz And Studio Music @ The University Of Memphis.  He discusses with The JLJF the importance of Jimmie Lunceford's music legacy to the Memphis Sound and its lasting impact on the jazz idiom...Also discussed is Lunceford's true rank among his peers in the Jazz Pantheon.

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Watch The Full Doc: 

http://blip.tv/file/4460437

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Or Watch It In 3 Parts: 
Part 1 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA2QXdXKpg4

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Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbe5ItsPEhA

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Part 3

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fEmKzi8wnQ
 

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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website:

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

Jimmie Lunceford @ Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Lunceford

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P.O. Box 752062

Memphis, TN 38175

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Jazznocracily Yours,
Ronald Herd II 

a.k.a.

Tha Artivist 

Founder of the W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Group Inc.

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen Sings The Praises Of Jimmie Lunceford

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen Sings The Praises Of Jimmie Lunceford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadBXzIkbH0

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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website: 

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Spreading The Jimmie Lunceford Legend Via 21ST Century Technology Is Our Business…Support The JLJF Movement.

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Spreading The Jimmie Lunceford Legend Via 21^ST Century Technology Is Our Business…Support The JLJF Movement. 

"Jimmie Lunceford Has The Best Of All Bands. Duke [Ellington] Is Great, [Count] Basie Is Remarkable, But Lunceford Tops Them Both."

-- Legendary Swing Band Leader Glenn Miller

"Jimmy Lunceford Was Buried Here In Memphis. The Spot He Occupies Should Have Something Of A Special Significance. ...He Took A Group Of Relatively Unsophisticated Memphis Colored Boys And Welded Them Into An Organization Which Scaled The Heights Of Musical Eminence. ... He Presented Something New In The Way Of Musical Presentations By Negro Orchestras. "

"Lunceford and many others like him chose to remain at home, and with their people. [His death] should have meaning in inspiration and guidance to others. If we permit it, Lunceford's burial in Memphis can mean this."

--Legendary Memphis Educator And Syndicated Columnist Nat D. Williams

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Please Continue Reading To Find Out Why…

2012 Is Not The Ending, It’s Just The Beginning!  

Please enjoy these recent tv documentaries that were produced by W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV that exposes the true genius and staying power of the Jimmie Lunceford Legacy. The  Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival (JLJF) will be honoring this unsung genius and the first self-proclaimed high school band director in Memphis City Schools History in a one year celebration in “The City Of Good Abode” starting in 2012 which will mark the 110th Anniversary of his birth and 65 years since his untimely passing.

We will have art exhibits, symposiums, workshops, parties, plays, battle of the bands and music concerts among many other things to give this man the greatest tribute from the city that helped manifest his show biz dream of an exceptional swing band composed of his best high school students and college buddies and a city he loved so much that he saw fit to be buried in it. We are also in the process of creating a scholarship fund for deserving students who are interested in continuing the living legacy of Jimmie Lunceford through pursuing excellence in music and music education… Please feel free to join us in raising the funds, awareness and enthusiasm for this amazing man and his timeless achievements.

Right now the City of Memphis is in dire need of an image makeover and what better way to give the city a facelift and self esteem boost than by giving it a truth serum of its own powerful and majestic history?

Our goal @ The JLJF is to make every single Memphian proud of our city’s heritage and true place in music history by encouraging music education and development for every school aged child at every school in the city. We also want to reestablish Memphis rightful place as a jazz mecca on par with other celebrated music cities such as New Orleans, Chicago and New York.

The JLJF represents a viable opportunity to build both true education and economic sustainability in a city that is not only the commercial hub of the nation but also arguably represents the cultural epicenter of the nation’s cultural heritage. What other city can lay claim to the following:

1.)    Giving birth to the modern phenomenon known as the supermarket (Clarence Saunders’ Piggly Wiggly opened @ 79 Jefferson in Memphis in 1916).

 

2.)    Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest  America playwrights, premiered his first play "Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay!" in the Bluff City @ The Garden Players community theater in 1935. Regarding this production, Williams wrote, "The laughter ... enchanted me. Then and there the theatre and I found each other for better and for worse. I know it's the only thing that saved my life."

3.)     20^th Century Literary Giant Richard Wright spent his childhood in North Memphis in New Chicago.

4.)    A man named Elvis who also lived in North Memphis made his music debut @ Sun Records and eventually had the world all shook up.

5.)    The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, made her stage entry into the world she would rule with soul in South Memphis….

6.)    The first All-Black cast and Oscar nominated Hollywood movie, “Hallelujah!”, was filmed not far from what is now present day LeMoyne Owen College.

7.) Louis Lettes, a Beale Street tailor, is credited with the creation of the zoot suit.

And Without Further Ado Here Are The New Docs Celebrating The Genius Of Jimmie Lunceford Created By W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV:

A Sophisticated Lady Remembers The King Of Sonic Swing, Jimmie Lunceford, A Conversation With Sis. Katheryn Perry Thomas

Sis. Katheryn Perry Thomas

(1/19/1915-1/7/2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNo6r4ki-w

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Rep. Steve Cohen Sings The Praises Of Jimmie Lunceford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadBXzIkbH0

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Watch The Full Doc:

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson 

http://blip.tv/file/4423316

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Or Watch It In 3 Parts:

Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPv2G1rABI

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Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkaH2biwGp8

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Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Part 3 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9aDe6hK0w

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 "Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

 ***Watch***

"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

The Full Documentary:

http://blip.tv/file/4436037 


Or View It In 4 Parts: 

"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

Part 1 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igeJ2fL6d0


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"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

Part 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkES0KsHMWw

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"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

Part 3 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsV2wyoiNgM

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"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SYCoJvi4c

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"Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper"

 (c) The W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Group, Inc.

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Watch The Full Doc: 

"Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper"

http://blip.tv/file/4460437

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Or Watch It In 3 Parts: 

"Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper"

Part 1 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA2QXdXKpg4

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"Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper"

Part 2

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbe5ItsPEhA

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"Jimmie Lunceford...Memphis Music's Missing Chapter: A Conversation With Dr. Jack T. Cooper"

Part 3

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fEmKzi8wnQ

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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website:

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

Jimmie Lunceford @ Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Lunceford

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Please Spread The Good News & Don’t Forget To Donate To A Truly Worthy Cause!

Or Send A Check Or Money Order To The Following Address:

Attn: Ron Herd II

The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival

P.O. Box 752062

Memphis, TN 38175

(At This Present Time Donations Are Not Tax Deductible)

Jazznocracily Yours,
Ronald Herd II 

a.k.a.

Tha Artivist 

Founder of the W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Group Inc.

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: "Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business: An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

(Interview Conducted
October 2007)
 
 
(Bro. Eddy Determeyer is on the left)


Bro. Eddy Determeyer is a native of the Netherlands and a pioneer in jazz scholarship...He wrote the first definitive biography about the life, career and legacy of Jimmie Lunceford, "Rhythm Is Our Business."

He is a 2007 Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Awardee for his exceptional contributions to music and music education.

***Watch***

"Writing About Jimmie Lunceford Is His Business:
An Interview With Jazzophile & Pioneering Lunceford
Biographer Eddy Determeyer"

The Full Documentary:


http://blip.tv/file/4436037 


Or View It In 4 Parts: 
Part 1 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igeJ2fL6d0


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Part 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkES0KsHMWw

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Part 3 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsV2wyoiNgM

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Part 4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-SYCoJvi4c


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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website: 

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald WilsonW.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Watch The Full Doc:

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

http://blip.tv/file/4423316

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Or Watch It In 3 Parts:

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPv2G1rABI

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkaH2biwGp8

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Remembering Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great Gerald Wilson

Part 3 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb9aDe6hK0w

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"Remembering  Jimmie Lunceford, The Master Teacher Of Swing: An Interview With Jazz Great & Lunceford Orchestra Alum Gerald Wilson"

Jazz great Gerald Wilson was born Sept. 4, 1918 in Shelby, Ms. Wilson went to Manassas School several years after Jimmie Lunceford left but finished up at Cass Tech High School in Detroit, Michigan. He joined the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra at age 19 in 1939. He wrote the swing jazz standards “Hi Spook” & “Yard Dog Mazurka” for the Lunceford Orchestra. He was also featured with the Lunceford Orchestra in the popular era movie, “Blues In The Night” in 1941.

At 92, He still teaches at UCLA (at one point he taught arguably the largest jazz history class in the world) and won a Teacher Of The Year Award in 2006!!! Mr. Wilson still leads his own very successful big band which also features Lunceford Alum Snooky Young...He wrote the 50th Anniversary theme song for The Monterrey Jazz Festival and the 30th Anniversary theme song the Detroit Jazz Festival, the largest free jazz festival in the country...

Gerald Wilson is also a 2007 Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Awardee for his great contributions to music and music education...

For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website: 

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

A Sophisticated Lady Remembers The King Of Sonic Swing, Jimmie Lunceford

Video: A Sophisticated Lady Remembers The King Of Sonic Swing, Jimmie Lunceford, A Conversation With Sis. Katheryn Perry Thomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVNo6r4ki-w

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Sis. Katheryn Perry Thomas

(1/19/1915-1/7/2008)

 Sis. Katheryn Perry Thomas Taught English & Spanish In The Memphis City Schools For Almost 50 Years. A Proud Manassas High School Graduate ('32) & Classical Pianist, She Was The Last Living Memphian To Have Been Taught By Jimmie Lunceford @ Manassas High School.

This Interview Was Conducted Oct. 18, 2007.

Sis. Katheryn Perry Thomas was also a 2007 Jimmie Lunceford Legacy Awardee for excellence in music and music education.

Influential Memphis Educator And Last Living Memphian To Have Played With Jazz Great Jimmie Lunceford Dies... 

http://jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com/2008/01/influential-memphis-educator-and-last.html

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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website:

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

Jazz Great Jimmie Lunceford's "Forbidden Love Affair" With Daughter Of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois Gets Play On The New York Stage

Erin Cherry as Yolande Du Bois and Morocco Omari as Jimmy Lunceford. 

Defiant Daughter Emerges In Harlem Renaissance Era Drama 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/len-hollie/defiant-daughter-emerges-_b_780960.html

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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website:

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

Jazz Historian & Radio Broadcaster Tom Morgan's Podcast On Jimmie Lunceford

 

Jazz Roots with Tom Morgan 14 

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/jazz-roots-with-tom-morgan-14-2/

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For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit The Official Website:

http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

Check Out The First Episode Of 'Real Talk With Tha Artivist'!!! "And Rhythm Was His Business: Jimmie Lunceford: A Memphis Music Legend"

"The Revolution Won't Be Televised But It Will Be Blogged, Podcasted & Broadcasted Online!!!"~

Tha Artivist

Real Talk With Tha Artivist Episode # 1~And Rhythm Was His Business...Jimmie Lunceford: A Memphis Music Legend

"Jimmie Lunceford Has The Best Of All Bands. Duke [Ellington] Is Great, [Count] Basie Is Remarkable, But Lunceford Tops Them Both."
-- Legendary Swing Band Leader Glenn Miller

"Jimmy Lunceford Was Buried Here In Memphis. The Spot He Occupies Should Have Something Of A Special Significance. ...He Took A Group Of Relatively Unsophisticated Memphis Colored Boys And Welded Them Into An Organization Which Scaled The Heights Of Musical Eminence. ... He Presented Something New In The Way Of Musical Presentations By Negro Orchestras."
--Legendary Memphis Educator And Syndicated Columnist Nat D. Williams

Although in recent days he was finally awarded a long overdue brass note on the street (Beale Street) that he helped made famous, the tantalizing question still remains for many in the City of Good Abode: Who Was Jimmie Lunceford???

In less than 30 minutes R2C2H2 Tha Artivist plans to answer that exact question with analysis from experts and the people who knew him the best.

“W.E. A.L.L. B.E. News Presents…Real Talk With Tha Artivist” takes great pride and honor in honoring a true gentleman whose creative genius and legacy knows no boundaries...James “Jimmie” Melvin Lunceford was considered by many to be among jazz's greatest swing band leaders...His Orchestra was nicknamed 'The Harlem Express' because of their overwhelming popularity with the African American community of the 1930s & 40s...His fame also extended beyond that proud community for he was also recognized by the larger national and international audiences as well...

Leading a band composed of his former high school students from the future Jazz Mecca Manassas High School (where he became the Memphis City Schools' first high school band director , amazingly starting a world class band with little start up money or any support from the school system) and his college buddies from Fisk University, The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra eventually became the house band for the legendary Cotton Club in storied Harlem, NY...The band became wildly famous because of their exceptional stage shows and the weekly live radio broadcasts from the club that were heard throughout the entire U.S....

Please join us in learning more about a man who owned and flew his own airplanes at a time when Blacks were not allowed to attend flight schools in the U.S....Learn more about a man who never forgot his teacher roots and would spend generous sums of money to start and support music education programs throughout the country to fight juvenile delinquency and dropout rates...Learn more about the former star athlete and ambitious teacher who became a movie star and a headliner & legend in his own time before dying under mysterious circumstances at the young age of 45 almost 62 years ago...Learn more about the efforts currently being done to restore this man's rightful place in the jazz pantheon and to ensure his legacy of perseverance, creativity, education and hope lives on in our youths and greater community for generations to come...

For More Information On Jimmie Lunceford & The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Please Visit
http://www.jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com

Please View All 3 Parts Of This Episode On W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV By Perusing The Following Links:

Part One



Part Two



Part Three



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What Are Some Other Ways I Can View ‘Real Talk With Tha Artivist’???

On TV:
Please catch the latest 'Real Talk With Tha Artivist' episode on Memphis Comcast Cable Channel 17 Mondays @ 8pm Central.

Online:
You can also view past and current episodes among other W.E. A.L.L. B.E. News Features at the official W.E. A.L.L. B.E. YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/weallbetv

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV~"Jimmie Lunceford: A Memphis Legend"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hv_Mva_Y6M&feature=channel_page

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. News & Radio Special~2nd Annual Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Radio Program:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/weallbe/2008/10/12/Tha-Artivist-PresentsWE-ALL-BE-News-Radio

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. News & Radio Special~1st Annual Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Radio Program:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/weallbe/2007/10/21/tha-artivist-presentswe-all-be-radio

Buy Jimmie Lunceford Art & Gear To Support The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival Movement...

http://jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com/2008/12/buy-jimmie-lunceford-art-gear-to.html

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Full & Updated Video Doc On Jimmie Lunceford!!!