Greatest Jazz Band Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
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- Release Date: 03/28/2007
- Original Release: 1989
- Sales Rank: 175,014
- Label: ABSORD JAPAN
- UPC: 4520879008274
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Greatest Jazz Band
| 1 | Battle Axe / Jimmie Lunceford 3:13 |
| 2 | The Morning After / Jimmie Lunceford 3:22 |
| 3 | Moonlight & Music / Jimmie Lunceford 4:23 |
| 4 | I'm Waltzing Through Heaven with You / Jimmie Lunceford 3:55 |
| 5 | Annie Laurie / Jimmie Lunceford 2:59 |
| 6 | There I Go / Jimmie Lunceford 3:12 |
| 7 | I Had a Premotion / Jimmie Lunceford 4:35 |
| 8 | Blue Afterglow / Jimmie Lunceford 3:44 |
| 9 | Like a Ship at Sea / Jimmie Lunceford 2:45 |
| 10 | State and Tioga Stomp / Jimmie Lunceford 2:12 |
Editorial Reviews
This budget LP has ten selections taken from radio transcriptions cut by Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra. They were not "the greatest jazz band," but Lunceford did lead one of the top orchestras of the period. Most of the main Lunceford stars were still in the big band at the time, including trombonist Trummy Young, altoist Willie Smith and tenorman Joe Thomas, but the performances are overall only average. Dan Grissom's rather uninteresting ballad vocals are on six of the ten numbers; there is less than half an hour of music on the album, as six other numbers from the same dates are left off; even the instrumentals (which include "Battle Axe," "Annie Laurie" and "State and Tioga Stomp") do not add anything to the Lunceford legacy. A lesser effort. Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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