Mundy, Jimmy

LC control no.	n 95048922
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mundy, Jimmy *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Mundy, James, 1907-1983 Mundy, James R., 1907-1983
Biography/History note	Individual was an Academy Award awardee.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19070628
Death date	19830424
Place of birth	Cincinnati (Ohio)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Benny Goodman Orchestra Epic Records
Profession or occupation	Jazz musicians Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Saxophonists
Found in	A man ain't supposed to cry, 1957?: label (Jimmy Mundy, arranger-conductor) OCLC 13219392 (hdg.: Mundy, Jimmy, 1907- ) All music guide, July 31, 1998 (Jimmy Mundy; b. James Mundy, June 6, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio; d. Apr. 24, 1983) Unsung musicals [SR] p1994: insert (music by James Mundy) American musical theatre, 1978: p. 596 (James Mundy; composer of musical Vamp ca. 1955) New Grove dict. of Jazz, 1995 (Mundy, Jimmy [James]; b. June 28, 1907, Cincinnati; d. April 24, 1983, New York) ASCAP biog. dict., 1980 (Mundy, James R.; b. Cincinnati, June 28, 1907; Songs & instrumental works: ... Tillie's tango) U.S. copyright file, Sept. 21, 2001 (Mundy, Jimmy (Tillie's tango, music: Jimmy Mundy); Mundy, James R. (from the Broadway production The vamp, music: James R. Mundy)) African American National Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mundy, Jimmy; James Mundy; jazz musician, composer/ arranger, saxophonist; born 28 June 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States; joined the White Brothers Orchestra in Washington, D.C. (around 1926); had been writing music since his Cincinnati days; joined the Hines orchestra (the next three years); began writing for the Benny Goodman Orchestra (1935); left Hines (1937); led and arranged a small group recording session; led his own working big band (1939-1940); moved to California (1941); led various Hollywood studio big bands, recording V-Discs and performing for Armed Forces Radio broadcasts (1945-1946); returned to New York (1948); arranger for the Academy Award-winning “The Man on the Eiffel Tower” (1949); composer, arranger, and orchestrator for “The Vamp”, Broadway musical (1955); two albums recorded under his own name for the Epic label, “On a Mundy Flight” (1958) and “Playing the Numbers” (1959); musical director of the Barclay record label, France (1959-1960); died 24 April 1983 in New York, New York, United States)