Wrote earliest Hits for Count Basie; Jimmie Lunceford
Choreographed Brass
Co-Wrote "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" (Ink Spots)
Arranged "In The Mood" (Glenn Miller);
Recorded 1st HIT on BOTH amplified & electric GUITAR;
Played non-pressure slide, valve, muted Trombone;
Coached, Led 1940's All-Girl Orchestras

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Annual Festival in San Marcos, Texas USA

Speech at Julliard

WHAM - Free Film Showing:
Friday, October 18, 2024 5:00 P.M. at the
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San Marcos, Texas
Q&A and Book Signing after

3 Books about

EDDIE DURHAM

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2023 Book Release #3 (Volume 2)
In the 1940s Eddie Durham wrote/arranged for and coached
all girl orchestras to unprecedented fame:

In Volume 1 "VIRTUOSITY" Eddie's brothers/cousins attended music school daily where they learned multiple instruments and to read and notate music - very unusual for African Indian Americans.They toured with SW circus,vaudeville and minstrel troupes. As a result, Eddie became a master arranger, composer, trombonist and guitarist.

Major Band leaders, black and white, hired his unique ability to produce big-band swing music HITS: Bennie Moten, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, The Sweethearts of Rhythm, Harry James. He masterminded the "dueling tenors" of Lester Young and (Eddie's cousin) Herschel Evans; Choreographed Brass Sections; Co-composed "I Don't Want To Set The World on Fire" for The Ink Spots; and he arranged the NARAS Hall of Fame hit: "In The Mood" for Glenn Miller !

Eddie recorded the first amplified guitar on "Honey Keep Your Mind On Me". Eddie recorded on a resonated guitar on "Hittin' the Bottle" - both BIG hits; John Hammond, Sr., produced Eddie showcasing the first American electric guitar on the classics: "The Lester Young Sessions". In 1940, Eddie recorded a new esoteric sound on guitar of "I Want A Little Girl" and "Magic Carpet." The book VIRTUOSITY ends at World War II, all-girl orchestras. Volume 2, "Eddie Durham and the Ladies of Jazz," explores his amazing story touring with all girls for 5 years.