Jazz Articles about Jeannie Cheatham

Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music

by Florence Wetzel
June 18, 2006

Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music Jeannie Cheatham Hardcover; 416 pages ISBN: 0292712936 University of Texas Press 2006

Jeannie Cheatham's recently released autobiography Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music is the exuberant tale of one of jazz and blues' most formidable pianists. Cheatham, born 1927 in Akron, Ohio, came from a family both loving and difficult. Early on she showed ...

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham: The Concord Jazz Heritage Series

by Ed Kopp
October 1, 1998

Since 1984, Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham have recorded eight infectious blues-based jazz albums on the Concord label. The Cheathams combine Kansas City blues, jump, swing, and occasional doses of bop and boogie-woogie in their danceable amalgam. This retrospective CD compiles 11 of the best tracks from their Concord recordings, and it's well worth checking out. This Cheathams are raucous enough to energize a frat party, yet mainstream enough to find on the jukebox at any good jazz club.Jimmy ...