NOTE: I just discovered that I uploaded next week's show instead of the one on Jimmie Lunceford. I've have replaced the show for next week with the correct show. I apologize for the confusion and hope you will redownload the correct show. There is some great music from the Lunceford band that you won't want to miss. To start our celebration of Black History month I am going back to show I produced a few years ago on the great band of Jimmie Lunceford. JJimmie Lunceford will long be remembered as the leader of a swinging big band that rivaled on record, and exceeded in person, the orchestras of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Count Basie. His band differed from many of the other big bands of the 1930s and 1940s in that Lunceford's group was noted less for its soloists than for its ensemble work. Furthermore, most bands of the period used a four-beat rhythm while the Lunceford Orchestra developed a distinctive two-beat swing often played at medium tempo. The unique sound became known during the Swing era as the Lunceford two-beat. Please visit this podcast at http://bigbandbashfm.blogspot.com