We give necessary and sufficient conditions for interpolation inequali
ties of the type considered by Marcinkiewicz and Zygmund to be true in
the case of Banach space-valued polynomials and Jacobi weights and no
des. We also study the vector-valued expansion problem of L(p)-functio
ns in terms of Jacobi polynomials and consider the question of uncondi
tional convergence. The notion of type p with respect to orthonormal s
ystems leads to some characterizations of Hilbert spaces. It is also s
hown that various vector-valued Jacobi means are equivalent.