Showing posts with label Jimmy Yancey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Yancey. Show all posts
Monday, October 01, 2018

How Long How Long Blues

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One of the most celebrated blues recording is " How Long How Long Blues ," most famous from Leroy Carr's recording. It was so ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

A few thoughts on the Blues Hall of Fame

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One of my friends, who may be on the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame Committee, inquired about my suggestions of folks to be considere...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

A few Blues thoughts for the day

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Thoughts for the day. Not one member of the Boogie Woogie Trio (Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis or Pete Johnson) is in the Blues Hall of Fa...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

How Long How Long Blues

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Today's blog is devoted to simply presenting a number of renditions of a song most associated with Leroy Carr, How Long, How Long Blues ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

A Box Set Treasure of Boogie Woogie and Blues Piano

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While it is not clear where the style of piano called Boogie Woogie originated, by 1928 it had clearly surfaced in Chicago where it was n...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Marvelous Reissue of Albums By George Lewis and Jimmy Yancey albums

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One of the unexpected pleasures of the recent Sony Box set celebrating 50 years of Preservation Hall was the inclusion of some selections...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Solo Art's Prime Boogie Woogie & Blues Piano

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At the tail end of 2009, I posted a review of a Delmark collection “ Boogie Woogie Kings ,” that was anthology collecting some vintage blues...
Friday, September 25, 2009

A personal list of Ten Great Blues Pianists

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I will not claim this is an exhaustive list but any collection of blues piano (and blues) should have something by all these acts. Cow Cow...
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