Jimmy Yancey

   
Artist: Jimmy Yancey

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Collection (Boogie Woogie)

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Tracks: 10

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One of the seminal boogie-woogie pianists, Yancey was dynamic in and around Chicago playing house parties and clubs from 1915, heretofore he remained unrecorded until May 1939, when he recorded "The Fives" and "Jimmy's Stuff" for a small pronounce. Soon later on, he became the starting time boogie piano player to record an album of solos, for Victor. By then, Yancey's work around Chicago had already influenced such younger and better-known pianists as Meade "Lx" Lewis, Pinetop Smith, and Albert Ammons.


Yancey played music hall as a tap terpsichorean and singer from the age of sise. He settled in Chicago in 1915, where he began composing songs and performing music at informal gatherings. In 1925, he became groundkeeper at Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox baseball game squad. Yancey was a musician's player, odd more often than not unsung and unheard outside of Chicago until 1936, when Lewis recorded one of his tunes, "Yancey Special." Three years later, producer Dan Qualey became the first-class honours degree to record Yancey for his new Solo Art judge. After the Victor recordings, Yancey went on to book for OKeh and Bluebird. In later years, Yancey performed with his married woman, blues isaac M. Singer Estelle "Mummy" Yancey; they appeared unitedly at Carnegie Hall in 1948.


Yancey was non as technically sporty as some of his disciples, but he was an expressive, earthy player with a elastic left hand that introduced an air of capriciousness into his bass lines. His playing had a notable distinctiveness: Although he wrote and performed compositions in a sort of keys, he over every tune in E flat. He was likewise an undistinguished vapours isaac Bashevis Singer, incidental himself on piano. Although Yancey attained a measure of fame for his music late in life sentence, he never throw in his sidereal day job, left over with the White Sox until scarcely before his death.