- Jimmy Cheatham
Jimmy Cheatham (
June 18 ,1924 inBirmingham, Alabama -January 12 ,2007 inSan Diego, California ) was ajazz trombonist and teacher who played withDuke Ellington andLionel Hampton andOrnette Coleman . In 1978, Cheatham was invited to head the jazz program atUniversity of California, San Diego and in 1979 he was appointed head of the African American and jazz performance programme there. He retired in 2005.While serving in the
United States Army during and just afterWorld War II Cheatham played in the173rd Army Ground Force Band .Cheatham met his wife,
Jean Evans , in 1956 inBuffalo, New York , when the localmusicians' union chief called them separately to replace two musicians who could not make a job at the local Elks Ballroom. They married in 1959.In the mid-1980s Cheatham formed
The Sweet Baby Blues Band with his wife. The Sweet Baby Blues Band playedKansas City-style blues . Cheatham's Sweet Baby Blues album won a French Grand Prix du Disque. Their album "Luv in the Afternoon" was voted blues album of the year in a 1991 critics poll in Down Beat.Cheatham also taught jazz at
Bennington College inVermont and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.Cheatham's legacy is carried on by several students who went on to become, like him, prominent composer/performer/educators: flutist
Nicole Mitchell , bassistKarl E. H. Seigfried , and drummerVikas Srivastava .Discography
* 1966 "The Dealer" - Chico Hamilton (arranger and conductor)
* 1984 "Sweet Baby Blues"
* 1985 "Midnight Mama" (Concord)
* 1987 "Homeward Bound" (Concord)
* 1988 "Back to the Neighborhood" (Concord)
* 1990 "Luv in the Afternoon" (Concord)
* 1991 "Basket Full of Blues" (Concord)
* 1993 "Blues and the Boogie Masters" (Concord)External links
* [http://www.jeanniecheatham.com Official Web Site For Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham]
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