(MUSIC) LUNCEFORD JIMMY The New King of Syncopation Jimmy Lu

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(MUSIC.) LUNCEFORD, JIMMY. The New King of Syncopation. Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra. Full sheet poster, 40 x 27 inches, framed. (A piece of blank paper was added across the top to accommodate the date the band was playing--in this case, Junior Prom. Feb. 12. New York: Lunceford Artists, circa 1929-1934

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Jimmy Lunceford (1902-1947) led one of the top jazz bands of the 1930's well into the early 1940's. In 1927, while an athletic instructor at Manassas High School in Memphis, Tennessee, Lunceford organized a student band, the Chickasaw Syncopators, later changed to the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. Under the new name, the band started its professional career in 1929, and made its first recordings on Decca in 1930. Lunceford's band differed from other great bands of the time because their work was better known for its ensemble than its solo work. Additionally, he was known for using a two-beat rhythm, called the Lunceford two-beat, as opposed to the standard four-beat rhythm. This distinctive "Lunceford style" was largely the result of the imaginative arrangements by trumpeter Sy Oliver which set high standards for dance-band arrangers of the time.