Jimmy Cheatham
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Jimmy Cheatham (June 18, 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama - Jan. 12, 2007 in San Diego, California)
Mr. Cheatham was raised in Buffalo, New York.
Mr. Cheatham was a jazz trombonist and teacher who played with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton and Ornette Coleman. .
Mr. Cheatham served in the Army from 1942 to 1946. During World War II, Mr. Cheatham played in the 173rd Army Ground Force Band.
Mr. Cheatham met Jean Evans in 1956 in Buffalo, New York, when the local musicians' union chief called them separately to replace two musicians who couldn't make a job at the local Elks Ballroom. They married in 1959.
In the mid-1980s Mr. Cheatham formed the Sweet Baby Blues Band with his wife, Jeannie. The Sweet Baby Blues Band played Kansas City-style blues, a sound Mr. Cheatham described as a marriage between jazz and the blues.
Mr. Cheatham's Sweet Baby Blues album won a French Grand Prix du Disque.and their album "Luv in the Afternoon" was voted blues album of the year in a 1991 critics poll in Down Beat.
Mr. Cheatham taught jazz at Bennington College in Vermont and at and the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
In 1978, Mr. Cheatham was invited to head the jazz program at University of California, San Diego. In 1979 Jimmy was appointed head of the African American and jazz performance programme at the University of California, San Diego. Mr. Cheatham retired from University of California, San Diego in 2005
Discography
- 1966 The Dealer
- 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).
