Air Week: February 26-March 3, 2024
Lucky Millinder
The “Juke In The Back” is loaded this week with records by one of R&B’s greatest and most underrated bandleaders, Lucky Millinder. He worked with vocalists as varied as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Wynonie Harris, Annisteen Allen, Bull Moose Jackson and Big John Greer, but Lucky Millinder is mostly forgotten by today’s audiences. Dizzy Gillespie actually played trumpet in Millinder’s Band in the early 1940s for a brief time. Even though Lucky Millinder is not remembered well today, his records certainly helped lay the foundation that would soon become Rock n’ Roll. Dig on some of greatest records, this week on the “Juke In The Back” with Matt The Cat.
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