Jimmy Yancey

Jimmy Yancey

Jimmy Yancey

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Top Songs

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Shave 'Em Dry
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Barber Shop Rag
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Assembly Call Boogie
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35th & Dearborn
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Bear Traps Blues

Albums

  • Boogie-Woogie Piano

    Aug 2021 • 11 songs

  • Keep a Knockin'

    Jan 2020 • 16 songs

  • Jimmie Yancey Collection

    Jun 2016 • 15 songs

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Jimmy Yancey

Biography

One of the seminal boogie-woogie pianists, Yancey was active in and around Chicago playing house parties and clubs from 1915, yet he remained unrecorded until May 1939, when he recorded "The Fives" and "Jimmy's Stuff" for a small label. Soon after, he became the first boogie-woogie pianist 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 "Lux" Lewis, Pinetop Smith, and Albert Ammons. Yancey played vaudeville as a tap dancer and singer from the age of six. He settled in Chicago...
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