'Taint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) - Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra (1939) скачать в хорошем качестве

'Taint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) - Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra (1939)

James Lunceford was born June 6, 1902 on a farm near Fulton, Mississippi, but would move with his family at seven months to Oklahoma City. They would move once again during Jimmie's high school years to Denver, Colorado where he would study music under Wilberforce Whiteman, father of famed Paul Whiteman. Through his studies, he would learn fluency with several instruments and would continue learning at Fisk University. He would do his first performing in 1922 on the alto sax in a local band, led by George Morrison and included Andy Kirk who would also go on to be a bandleader. In 1927 while working as the athletic instructor for Manassas High School in Memphis, Tennessee, he organized a student band that he called the Chickasaw Syncopators. Managing that band led him to create his own band which would be known simply as the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. The group would make its first recordings in 1930 with the side effect of making Lunceford the first public high school band director in Memphis. The band would go on to tour, playing the same class of clubs that Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway had played. Jimmie was making a name for himself, and a style that would become known as the Lunceford Two-Beat, instead of a standard four beat rhythm. Comedy, vaudeville, and film would play a large part in Lunceford's development, where in arranger Sy Oliver's hands, would turn into their own unique takes on many popular songs of the day. Some of the comedy even worked its way into the band's stage shows including skits, costumes, and jabs at mainstream white bands of the time like Paul Whiteman and Guy Lombardo. Professionalism was paramount however, and that professionalism garnered a reputation equal to that of Duke Ellington, Earl Hines or Count Basie. The orchestra began recording with Decca, but soon signed on with Columbia and subsidiary Vocalion in 1938. It was short lived however, as Columbia decided to part ways only 2 years later in 1940 due to declining sales (Sy Oliver had left to arrange for Tommy Dorsey). Lunceford returned to the Decca label and even appeared in the 1941 film "Blues in the Night". The band held together through the war, but barely, as low pay would often see members seeking opportunities elsewhere, but remained of good quality and high regard. Then, in 1947, while signing autographs, Jimmie would collapse, passing away in the ambulance at the age of 45. This is one of those songs recorded while with Columbia and Vocalion, called "You Can Fool Some Of The People (Some Of The Time)" written by Leonard Feather, and sung by Jimmie Young. The recording took place September 14, 1939. Jimmie Young, real name Trummy Young, born in Savannah, GA in 1912, was a saxophonist and vocalist that began performing at the age of 16 in the Washington D.C. area. He worked with some of the greats like Earl Hines (1934-37), Jimmy Lunceford (1937-43) as heard here, and Charlie Barnet (1943-43). After a stint with Boyd Raeburn and Norman Granz, he moved to Hawaii for the first time. He would leave it for the chance to play with Louis Armstrong's All Stars, but after that, returned to Hawaii and would call that home base for the rest of his life. He would perform throughout the US and Europe for most of his life, passing from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1984.