Billy May & His Orchestra - Jimmie Lunceford In Hi-Fi

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:45
Size: 88.7 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz, Easy Listening
Year: 1958/2007
Art: Front

[2:42] 1. Tain't What You Do
[2:36] 2. Ain't She Sweet
[2:58] 3. Charmaine
[2:38] 4. Uptown Blues
[2:39] 5. Cheatin' On Me
[2:56] 6. Coquette
[3:05] 7. Rhythm Is Our Business
[2:39] 8. Well All Right Then
[4:55] 9. Blues In The Night
[2:54] 10. Four Or Five Times
[3:06] 11. I'm Walkin' Thru Heaven
[2:32] 12. For Dancers Only
[2:59] 13. My Blue Heaven

Best remembered as the man who crafted spunky arrangements for Frank Sinatra, Billy May (1916-2004) developed his skills during the late 1930s and early '40s as trumpeter and arranger with the Charlie Barnet, Glenn Miller and Les Brown orchestras. During the 1950s, May churned out a series of spiffy big band records for Capitol where he served as staff arranger. Sorta-May, a very popular album from 1954, features one dozen well-loved melodies by great Tin Pan Alley composers including Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hart, George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Rudolf Friml. Note that Sorta-May was reissued on GNP Crescendo in 1996, coupled with May's 1955 Sorta Dixie album. May's Jimmie Lunceford tribute, first issued in 1957 as Great Jimmie Lunceford, is a hi-fidelity salute to the Mississippi-born and Memphis-raised African-American bandleader. May lent authenticity to the project by having ex-Lunceford bandmembers Dan Grissom, Willie Smith, Joe Thomas and Trummy Young stand in as vocalists. ~arwulf arwulf

Jimmie Lunceford In Hi-Fi

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