When Bandleader Jimmie Lunceford died in 1947, his band was already something of a legend. Its trumpets could play with the fluency of flutes, its saxophones with the sweetness of strings. Moreover, the adventurous arrangements made music instead of noise. Columbia has now issued Lunceford Special, an LP containing eight characteristic numbers, from the early (1934), hectic White Heat to such sophisticated selections as Uptown Blues and Chopin's Prelude No. 7.
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