Update: July 27, 3:00pm PT

On the Facebook page for the campaign, they announced what tracks were being transcribed. Here they are, in alphabetical order:

Ain't She Sweet

Annie Laurie

Blues in the Groove

For Dancers Only

Four or Five TImes

Harlem Shout

He Ain’t Got Rhythm

Hi Spook

It’s Time to Jump and Shout

Jay Gee

Jazznocracy

Jeep Rhythm

Le Jazz Hot

Lunceford Special

Margie

My Blue Heaven

Oh Boy

Organ Grinder’s Swing

Pigeon Walk

Posin’

Rhythm is Our Business

Rose Room

Shut Out

Stomp it Off

Strictly Instrumental

Swingin’ on C

Twenty Four Robbers

Uptown Blues

Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)

Whatcha Know Joe

MORE ABOUT SONG SELECTION AND PROCESS

A few Lunceford “hits” are not on this list - notably White Heat, Avalon and ‘Taint What You Do. That’s because, unlike the rest, there actually are high quality and accurate arrangements of these available currently. Also, for several of the other more popular tunes, we are aware that “stock charts” exist, and the transcribers will have access to those, if needed, as a jumping-off-point, but we’ve determined that in those cases a new transcription will bring us the closest to accurate recreation!



ARCHIVAL RECOVERY

In addition to the other 26 transcriptions, this project will include four tunes that were recovered from Lunceford’s original book of band charts archived at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington DC. Each of these tunes is in decent shape, but still require some work cleaning up and re-notating before they can be performed. Because these will ultimately require a little less of a transcriber’s time, they are a little cheaper to sponsor, so might make a good sponsorship choice for a group or individual that has limited funds, but still wants to participate in a pretty awesome act of historical preservation! These tunes are: Lunceford Special, Rhythm Is Our Business, Jay Gee, and My Blue Heaven.

To support the campaign, head to their Indiegogo page.