LUNCEFORD, JAMES MELVIN (JIMMY
). Jazz bandleader ( in Fulton, Missouri; in Seaside, Oregon). His father was a choir director. The family moved to Denver, Colorado, when he was a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Denver, where he studied with
Wilberforce Whiteman
(father of Paul Whiteman); at Fisk University (B. Mus., 1926); and at City College in New York (now a unit of City University of New York). During his vacation...