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The couple duo of Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham have already been working together because the mid-’50s and married because the past due ’50s. Her dynamic, joyful vocals and his good-natured trombone riffs and accompaniment have already been featured on the succession of good Concord albums in the ’80s and ’90s. …

A trombonist and arranger best remembered for stints to get Chico Hamilton and Duke Ellington, Jimmy Cheatham was also a jazz educator and bandleader, with wife Jeannie helming the Special Baby Blues Music group for near half a hundred years. Blessed in Birmingham, AL, on June 18, 1924, Cheatham is …