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Purpose Of The Jimmie Lunceford Festival

The Jimmie Lunceford Jamboree Festival or JLJF was started to honor the amazing legacy of James Melvin Lunceford, the first high school band director/ orchestra leader in Memphis City Schools History…He went on to form, with help from his nine former students from Manassas High School and college buddies from Fisk University, one of the most formidable if not the greatest jazz swing band of all time...The Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra would regularly broadcast live from The Cotton Club in the 1930s, gaining a national following especially among African Americans…

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.... Please read the following to see what eight weeks of wood shedding and making the impossible possible can do!!!

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Manassas students listen attentively as Overton Jazz Orchestra performs. Although they couldn't play the notes the sounds had a great and beautiful impact on them.

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http://jimmieluncefordjam.blogspot.com/2007/10/first-annual-jimmie-lunceford-jamboree.html