Butch Thompson - RECORDINGS Butch salutes the great blues pianist jimmy yancey, among others. For details,to hear clips and to order online, click one of these links Jazz By Mail» http://www.butchthompson.com/pages/cds.html
Orange County Ragtime Society Meeting: November 2001 Eric explained that Babcock, a Bay Area composerpianist, wrote and self-publishedthe then opened his set with yancey s Bugle Call by jimmy yancey. http://www.ragfest.com/NOV01_slightly_edited.html
Extractions: Nov. 10, 2001 ORANGE COUNTY RAGTIME SOCIETY GETS OFF TO STRONG START At Steamers Cafe in Fullerton, the Orange County Ragtime Society got off to a start with its first gathering, with music being cranked up on Steamers' Kawai grand piano at 12:30 p.m. and continuing till nearly 4 p.m. At its peak, the audience reached a total of some 25 listeners many hearing authentic ragtime performed live for the first time in their lives. OCRS founder Eric Marchese emceed the afternoon, getting things rolling with Harvey Babcock's 1912 publication "World's Fair Rag." Eric explained that Babcock, a Bay Area composer-pianist, wrote and self-published the rag in San Francisco in anticipation of the upcoming (1915) Panama-Pacific International Exposition. That world's fair that got considerably less attention from the ragtime world than the one held in St. Louis 11 years earlier, of which no fewer than four rags were written and dedicated including pieces by Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin and James Scott. Eric followed with Scott Joplin's first published piece of music, the waltz-song "Please Say You Will," which Joplin had published in 1895 when he and his Texas Medley Quartette had ventured as far north as Syracuse, N.Y., where the piece was published. Eric played a request, his "An Autumn Memory Sentimental Rag," which he wrote in 1989, explaining that the piece was intended to capture the wistful memories of a native New Englander for the beauteous seasonal changes reflected by the region's indescribable foliage each fall. He ended his set with the 1907 Joplin masterpiece "Gladiolus Rag."
JAZZ INFORMATION On the reverse, Mecca Flat Blues (239), the pianist is jimmy Blythe. There s no need to repeat here the story of jimmy yancey, which William Russell http://home.att.net/~joeshepherd/jazz/jazz24.html
Extractions: ALL-STAR BAND RECORDS FOR VARSITY An all-star mixed band recorded four sides for United States Records Thursday (December 14) under the supervision of Warren Scholl new U. S. talent man. The band included Benny Carter, alto sax and trumpet Coleman HawkIns tenor sax; Ulysses Livingston, guitar; Danny Polo, clarinet; Joe Sullivan, piano; George Wettling, drums. Jeanne Burns was the vocalist. The tunes tentatively chosen to be recorded were: Tight Like That, Save It Pretty Mama, Easy Rider, and a boogie woogie number. The records are to be released on the Varsity label, under a name not yet selected. Toots Mondello, star altoist now with Benny Goodman, will have his second recording date for Varsity on Monday (December 17). Four solo sides are to be cut, with an accompaniment furnished by Claude Thornhill, piano, and Nick Fatool, drums. SULLIVAN ADDS COLORED TRUMPETER Andy Anderson, trumpet, has replaced Murphy Steinberg in Joe Sullivan's band, at Cafe Society New York. This change leaves Sullivan and Danny Polo tenor sax, the only white musicians in the band. The second Monday night jam session at Cafe Society featured James P. Johnson, piano; Bobby Sands, sax; Joe Thomas, trumpet; Vic Dickinson, trombone; Tiny Watts, bass; and Yank Porter, drums.
Jazz Information Four piano solos by Jim yancey, legendary blues pianist, The Fives, and twoselected from Sweet Patootie, yancey Stomps, and jimmy s Stuff. http://home.att.net/~joeshepherd/jazz/jazz18.html
Extractions: VOL. I, NO. 8 OCTOBER 31, 1939 TEN CENTS Decca Sides for Chicago Album not Likely Muggsy Spanier has signed a contract to record exclusively for Bluebird, it was learned this week end. The contract follows the success of the recent Spanier Bluebird discs. This contract will prevent Spanier from recording as planned for the Decca Album of Chicago style that George Avakian is assembling Muggsy's band is booked into Nick's for a month and then they may hit the vaudeville circuit for six months as part of a larger show. Changes in Muggsy's personnel, do not appear imminent although rumors to the contrary are circulating. The band is a success at the Greenwich Village spot and it seems unlikely that any changes are contemplated immediately. Correct personnel, as printed in last week's Jazz Information, is: Muggsy Spanier, cornet; Rod Cless, clarinet; George Brunies, Trombone; George Zack, piano; Bob Casey, bass; Russ Fisher, tenor;and Marty Greenberg, drums. HARLAN LEONARD SIGNS WITH MCA Harlan Leonard, top flight Kansas City band, has signed with MCA and is leaving on tour Jan lst. The band is now playing the Century Room in Kansas City and broadcasts nightly over station KCMO at 10:30 p. m.
Jazz Bulletin Board - 5 Under-Rated Solo Piano Jazz Albums Jaki Byard, was a long time standing pianist for the great Jazz I wouldnominate jimmy yancey s final recordings for the Atlantic label for this honor. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=16
Jazz Bulletin Board - 5 Under-Rated Solo Piano Jazz Albums I will add another CD by a spanish pianist, Chano Domínguez En directo. And a strong second to Joe s mention of jimmy yancey s Atlantic album. http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=16&page=4
Press For Barrelhouse Chuck -- Chicago Blues Piano pianowise was by the German pianist Christian Rannenburg, but Chuck s vocalsare much better. If names such as jimmy yancey, Little Brother Montgomery, http://www.barrelhousechuck.com/p-cd-pftb-bm-jun03.html
Thelonious Monk Jazz Music Liner Notes Illness plagued Monk in his later years and when pianist Henri Renaud went into doing a James P Johnson piece, or possibly jimmy yancey s At The Window. http://www.monkzone.com/linotes/Black Lion v. 1.htm
Extractions: Notes by Alun Morgan Trinkle Tinkle (take 3); Crepuscule With Nellie (take 2); Darn That Dream; Little Rootie Tootie; Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland; Nice Work If You Can Get It; My Melancholy Baby; Jackieing; Loverman; Blue Sphere; Thelonious Monk - piano recorded on November 15, 1971 in London. "Thelonious Monk works so exclusively with the basic materials of jazz that, in the best moments, his playing almost becomes a working definition of that music. Monk's pianistic strength lies not in complex executive feats but in a sensitive, vividly incisive deployment of those basics; time, accent, meter, space". Max Harrison's quotation comes from his essay on Monk in 'Jazz on Record' (Hanover Books), one of the most perceptive pieces of criticism written about this unique pianist-composer. Any record of Monk is worthy of the closest study but the six-hour session which took place in the Chappell Studios in London in November 1971 produced some of the most stimulating music Thelonious has ever played. This session produced the last commercial records ever made by Monk. Illness plagued Monk in his later years and when pianist Henri Renaud went to New York at the end of 1977 in order to produce an album of the remaining bebop piano players (Duke Jordan, Sadik Hakim etc.) he learned that Thelonious had been lying, semi-paralysed, at home for some time. The music papers seemed not to have reported this distressing fact but being ignored by the news media was unfortunately, nothing new as far as Thelonious Sphere Monk was concerned.
PopMatters for it was there that the great jimmy yancey (who was rarely recorded until his this piece gives a good idea of the excitement that a boogie pianist http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/various/various-mastersoftheboogiepiano.
Extractions: comment on this article The history of jazz piano is an interesting one, and it benefits from being told separately from the history of jazz music in general. The piano was, in many ways, an instrument in search of its jazz voice in the 1920s and '30s, and even in the 1940s and '50s, because its best performers didn't always fit into the prevailing styles of the time. Since the piano is unique in that it is primarily a percussive instrument that nonetheless can play both melody and harmony, it makes sense that a great deal of pianists' best work is often a solo affair. When jazz was developing in, among other places, New Orleans, the piano really didn't have a place in the new music. Bands like those led by Buddy Bolden and Joe "King" Oliver either didn't have pianos or relegated the instrument to the basest support role. Of course, there were pianists who developed their own style of playing, using the framework of ragtime as a basis. Pianists such as Tony Jackson and, most infamously, Jelly Roll Morton, incorporated ragtime, show music, and European classical styles in their pianistic styles and in their compositions. Their development presaged the work of the Harlem stride piano giants, including James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith. These men were able to read music and were often formally trained, with the result that they had prodigious technique and understood the building blocks of European harmony. But they also understood, and played, the blues, something that ragtime players had not done.
SwingT Blues singer and pianist jimmy McCracklin signs with the label in March of Lloyd Glenn his combo record yancey Special and After Hours on 292. http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/SwingT.html
Extractions: THE SWING TIME STORY Swing Time records was originally known as Down Beat, and was formed in Los Angeles in 1947 by Jack Lauderdale a Black record company entrepreneur originally from San Angelo,Texas. In October of 1949 the label changed its name to Swing Beat, and six months later became Swing Time Records.The label started out with a number of recordings by Lowell Fulson, blues singer and guitarist from Tulsa Oklahoma who also was known at various times as "Tulsa Red". Here is a listing of those early recordings from 1947. 110 - Crying Blues / You're Going To Miss Me 111 - Miss Katie Blues / Rambling Blues 112 - Fulson's Blues / San Francisco Blues 113 - The Fulson Boogie / Mean Woman Blues 114 - Trouble Blues / Wanna See My Baby 115 - Black Widow Spider / Don't Be So Evil 116 - Trying To Find My Baby / Highway 99 117 - Thinking Blues / Down Beat Shuffle 118 - Midnight Showers of Rain / So Long, So Long 119 - Wee Hours In The Morning / My Gal At Eight 120 - Bad Luck Blues / I'm Going Away 121 - The Blues Got Me Down 122 - I'm A Poor Boy / My babe 123 - Blues And Women / Sweet Johnny Lee 131 - CS Jam / Household Troubles by Clarence Samuels 133 - Television Blues / Don't You Hear Me Calling You - Lowell Fulson 134 - Demon Woman / Tears At Sunrise - Lowell Fulson 135 - Blues And Misery / Jam That Boogie - Tulsa Red 149 - Deep Sea Diver / A.C. Boogie Blues - Clarence Samuels
Jazz Improv Magazine People who influenced him Albert Ammons, jimmy yancey, Bill Evans Thatsdifferent from a pianist. A pianist can play anything you can put in front of http://www.jazzimprov.com/links/legends.cfm?legend_id=9
Dolmetsch Online - Composers Biography Y yancey, jimmy more 20 Feb. 1898 Chicago, USA, 17 Sep. 1951 Los Angeles,CA, USA, American pianist and composer whose music straddles the borders of http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsy.htm
Vince Evans CDs Otis Spann, Roosevelt Sykes, jimmy yancey, Fats Domino, Pete Johnson and Nina She has performed many great venues with the great pianist, Art Tatum. http://www.vinceevans.com/html/cds.html
Extractions: home about charts consultation ... contact All CDs are available through this site. The cost of each CD is $15.00. Checks may be made payable to Vince Evans. All orders will be shipped immediately via ground transportation. Email your CD order at cds@vinceevans.com Solo Piano Works, Vol.1-Jazz Standards This is the ultimate CD for the jazz lover. Vince's performances on this CD are mostly influenced by the greats of jazz piano such as Eroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Chick Corea, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk. Solo Piano Works, Vol.3-The Blues This CD contains nothing but the blues in it's many forms. You'll find happy blues, sad blues, healing blues, jump blues, country blues, gut-bucket blues. If you can't feel this music, check your pulse! Here you'll hear the influences of blues giants such as Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Roosevelt Sykes, Jimmy Yancey, Fats Domino, Pete Johnson and Nina Simone. Divine Order This is a CD featuring the wonderful Connie Simmons. Connie is a mere 88 years old (a year for every key on the piano). She has performed many great venues with the great pianist, Art Tatum. This recording has her singing her favorite songs and telling many wonderful stories. It's chock full of both soul and wisdom from the ages. Connie still performs and if you're lucky enough to catch her, you will know you've heard a voice from heaven.
Dixieland And Jazz Overview, Part A (2) the end of the 20 s, when it was used in a recording title by the Black pianist,Pine Top Smith. Speckled Red, Cow Cow Davenport and jimmy yancey. http://nfo.net/usa/JOA.html
K. C. Miller * Piano * Vocals * Klavierunterricht Translate this page Begriffe pianist, Piano Player, Klavierspieler, Klavier, Piano, Flügel, Gesang, Dennis Koeckstadt, Chris Rannenberg, jimmy yancey, Rufus Perryman, http://www.kcmiller.de/
Listen To Bad Dog Blues budding session pianist/guitarist contributing to records by Professor Longhair, Scott Joplin s Original Rags and jimmy yancey on yancey Special. http://www.baddogblues.com/archives/11.03/reviews.htm
Extractions: "All By Hisself: Live At The Lonestar" is the first in a series, entitled "The Rebennack Chronicles", unreleased recordings drawn from Dr. John's (Mac Rebennack) huge archive of live concert tapes. Mac lays down some outstanding solo piano and to sweeten the deal there's a bonus DVD where he discusses the history of New Orleans music sprinkled with his own playing. If this first collection is any indication this is going to be an incredible series. Hyena Records has partnered with Mac to create Skinji Brim, a record label designed to spotlight his archive of live concert recordings encompassing over 20 years. The label also plans to spotlight some new artists that as Mac says "ain't found a home nowhere, but has some solid music to project." "All By Hisself: Live At The Lonestar" is all Mac, recorded over two nights in 1986 at New York's Lonestar as the Dr. delivers a rousing clinic on New Orleans piano.
Search Directory Page (Steve Rabson) is an accomplished jazz pianist (although he has a day job), Also Leroy Carr and jimmy yancey who is still my main source of piano http://bluesland.net/thang/Rabson.html
WGBH Programs She married boogiewoogie pianist jimmy yancey in 1919. Together, they sang andrecorded sporadically until his death in 1951. Their 1948 performance at New http://www.wgbh.org/schedules/program-info?episode_id=2041541&program_id=732589
Barrelhouse Bonni Sings The Blues In Chicago jimmy yancey, Little Brother Montgomery, Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Slim, pianist Barrelhouse Bonni was invited to sit in on a couple of Sam Lay s http://www.barrelhousebonni.com/
Extractions: Barrelhouse Bonni's stage name recalls the old upright pianos in the juke joints that once peppered southern cotton fields and lumber camps. Her left-hand rhythms lay the backdrop for her low, smoldering voice. She brings back some toe-tapping boogies plus slinky songs from the classic 1930s blues divas, throwing in some 1960s soul ballads and her own 21st century blues. Bonni plays as an acoustic solo for parties, restaurants, nursing homes and small festival stages. She also gives blues classes and workshops for all ages and backs up some of Chicago and DC's finest authentic blues musicians. Catching the blues bug after losing her job in middle age, Bonni set about learning the trade from the Uppity Blues Women of Saffire Ann Rabson, Andra Faye Hinkle, and Gaye Adegbalolaat Augusta Blues Week in Elkins, in her home state of West Virginia. She enjoys playing an acoustic piano whenever possible; she also has an 88-key electric piano and sound system. "The old uprights have a great percussive sound," she says. "Having 88 keys and percussion, you can pretend you're a whole band!" Since coming to Chicago from West Virginia in 2003, Bonni has been crafting her music at the unorganized, but very active "West Side School of Blues." She aims to support these neighborhood musicians who survive the hardships of the inner city and exude the power and joy of this groovy, soulful music. In 2004, she and
CATALOG: LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY singer/pianist Little Brother Montgomery, and singer Mama yancey (widow ofthe great blues and boogie pianist jimmy yancey) were veterans of the http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/montgomery_lb_cat.html
Extractions: Today, the sound of Chicago blues is associated with searing electric guitars and harmonicas, yet Chicago was a blues mecca long before anyone ever thought of plugging into an amplifier. Singer/guitarist Walter Vinson of the legendary Mississippi Sheiks, singer/pianist Little Brother Montgomery, and singer Mama Yancey (widow of the great blues and boogie pianist Jimmy Yancey) were veterans of the pre-electric Chicago scene and were in magnificent form when Riverside captured their plaintive acoustic stylings in 1961 for its Chicago: The Living Legends MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS A Wonderful Thing, I Knew You Were Kiddin' All the Time, Things 'Bout Comin' My Way, LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY New Satellite Blues, HENRY BENSON Jelly Jelly, Jelly Roll Baker, MAMA YANCEY Four O'Clock Blues, How Long Blues, Mama Yancey's Blues, Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, plus CD bonus track Santa Fe Blues
