[Dixielandjazz] Jimmy Yancey

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How about B.B. King?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Farrell" <stridepiano at tesco.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:39 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jimmy Yancey


> Butch Thompson said :
>
> "For economy of means, my vote goes to Jimmy Yancey."
>
> I've never been able to understand the attraction of Yancey's blues
playing,
> yet so many of my piano playing friends think that he is wonderful. That
> spare, almost amateurish style of his must be a blind spot with me.
>
> Southside Chicago blues/boogiewoogie as played by Pete Johnson, Albert
> Ammons, Jimmy Blythe etc. is one of my favourite piano genres but Yancey
> always fails to stir my loins.  What's the big deal with him? Is it one of
> these "soul" things where technical facility is unimportant? I'd really
like
> to know.
>
> John Farrell
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
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