Results for "Jimmy Yancey"

Jimmy Yancey

Born: February 20, 1898

Jimmy Yancey- piano, composer, recording artist (1898-1951)

Boogie Woogie can best be defined as solo piano music based on the twelve or eight bar patterns, characterized by the repeated use of the bass figures. The Boogie Woogie piano craze had a short run of popularity in the late ‘30’s and into the mid ‘40’s where then it slipped back into a more straight blues style. There were but a few real players of the form, although scores of pale imitators. There is a story of a recording session in 1938 where the pianist just finished a song, with a strange tango bass in eight to the bar, with unusual harmonies, delivered in a quiet thoughtful mood. The engineer asked the name of the song, the player said “Yancey Special”, leading right to “who’s Yancey”? The player on this date was boogie woogie champion Meade Lux Lewis, talking about his mentor Jimmy Yancey, a most reluctant piano hero if there ever was one.

Mike Westbrook: The Piano in the Room and the Blues

by Vincenzo Roggero
June 11, 2026

Pubblicato in occasione del novantesimo compleanno e circa un mese prima della sua scomparsa, The Piano in the Room and the Blues testimonia un concerto per piano solo, evento piuttosto raro nella sconfinata discografia di Mike Westbrook, leggendario musicista britannico noto per aver composto musica per ogni tipo di formazione, dal duo a varie combinazioni orchestrali, avventurandosi ...

Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder

by Greg Simmons
February 13, 2020

Legend tells us that 1964's The Sidewinder was the album, and indeed the song, which saved Blue Note Records at a time when the label was struggling financially. Dashed off to fill some tape, at the end of the recording session, it peaked at number 25 on the Billboard charts—almost unheard of for a hard-bop record—stabilizing ...

Storia del Jazz

by Maurizio Zerbo
February 21, 2014

Storia del jazz Ted Gioia 592 Pagine ISBN: # : 978-88-6639-995-7 EDT/Siena Jazz 2013 A Ted Gioia si devono alcuni dei saggi più stimolanti della storiografia jazzistica, ed in primis la “Storia del jazz." Ben curata da Francesco Martinelli, l'edizione italiana aggiunge alcune chicche di rilievo rispetto a ...

Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 31, 2012

Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps surprising conclusions about the subject's contribution to jazz. First, Guaraldi arguably hipped more listeners to this musical form ...

Mike Westbrook: Art Wolf at 75

by Duncan Heining
November 7, 2011

Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine a jazz composer who began with Ellington and then moved on through Mingus. He soon encompassed rock music, Kurt Weill, Rossini, the traditions of English church music and the pastoralism of Vaughan Williams and Holst, but still found a place in his music for The Beatles, European political cabaret ...

Randy Weston: African Stories, African Rhythms

by Ian Patterson
November 8, 2010

In over 60 years as a leader, pianist Randy Weston has achieved an incredible amount. He has recorded nearly 50 albums and has been hailed in the process as the natural heir to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Three times he has been voted Downbeat's composer of the year, and his compositions have been recorded by ...

Jimmy and Mama Yancey Chicago Piano Vol. I

By Jimmy Yancey

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1992

Jazz De Poche N° 25

By Jimmy Yancey

Label: HighNote
Released: 1960

Jimmy Yancey

By Jimmy Yancey

Label: HighNote
Released: 1958