Roots of Blues -- Jimmy Yancey „Rolling The Stone"

[AJRussell91]

This song is called state street special. Not "rolling the stone"

[zeitkommando]

If I could play like anyone in the known universe, this is the man I would like to be as good as ... and this is one of his hottest numbers --- listen to it roll!

[cliffordrichards1]

This man was so ahead of the future AMAZING

[pjarrow]

I can't believe that anyone could dislike such exuberant & joyful music!

[DettoriGiampaolo]

Ottimo artista !!!! mani d'oro........ e sentimenti da poeta del blues.

[hellesterne]

The father of the piano blues. Yancey's blues roll through your mind, like wine through water, colouring your thoughts, and bringing to mind nights when “a black wind mutters and the stars are gone..." He was a genius.

[BuckshotLaFunke1]

@hellesterne Well put, thanks.

[syn707]

My fathe-in-law who played as a drummer for the Salty Dogs, a trad jazz band, were in Chicago playing a gig. The next day one of them decided that they should go find Jimmy. And they did. He and his wife invited the "youngsters" in and along with some snacks and beverages, they both entertained the kids. Jimmy pulled out a box of records and the band members bought what they could afford. My father-in-law still has this 45s. I transferred them over to CD for him and made myself a copy.

[LEONCODAJJ]

Decía JELLY ROLL MORTON que todo buen jazz debe tener un toque español, JIMMY YANCEY tocaba a menudo blues a ritmo de habanera como se nota aqui a partir del minuto 2:20 donde con la mano zquierda toca a ritmo de habanera .

[kencrowe22]

he is mischievous and subtle. He insinuates a blues note where none is played yet his style is pure blues

[MagyarRockerHonved]

Respect !

[Oxfordclassicjazz]

Somebody said "they don't play it, they think it..." It's as if there was a rolling wave of music in Yamcay's soul and his fingers just translated that primitive wave into actual music. This is how music should be - the spontaneous expression of somebody's soul.

[RubaDubStylist]

@Oxfordclassicjazz pretty sure its really like that..but I don't think you can only pour your soul into music..

[buffalobilly]

man this was an true original, that facial expression if anything else

[MrGustavoagonzalez]

Want to Know where rock comes from? this is it...///

[turbonelli]

Jimmy, you really were one of the best!

[AlejandroMendoza2010]

It´s the third consecutive day that I wake up and listen to this amazing performance!!!

Long Live Yancey!!! and thanks for posting this treasure....

Roll The Stone!!!!

[jaapbakker]

Some time ago I was attended to Jimmy Yancey ending all his pieces in E-flat, giving cuious results sometime, but making you wonder how he wil get there eventually!

[stinkywizzleteat]

Music nowadays is just garbage in comparison to this.

[bigwillhenk]

Big Will & the bluesmen greats a other blues goost

[marponder]

Wow, this man can play blues/boogie.

And then to think that he wound up as a groundskeeper for the White Sox...

Jack Prins, Mexico

[AAErikCO]

This is one hell of a boogie woogie piano!! In the words of Lemuel Fowler, "Play that thing a long time!"

[Maryasha33]

серьёзная музыка!! не то, что нынче пошли, разные бездари!!

serious music!! not what came today, different mediocrity!!

[HappyBirthdaySANTA]

man i finally found BBB took me forever considering all the people at my school listen to a voice machines aka mainstream pop!!! RIP BBB i love you man

[sayyes2bull]

me and you down the road i go

[musicolorhythm]

I will hear Jimmy Yancey for the rest of my life.

[ijavikica]

Listen to Monkey woman blues by mama yancey and jimmy jancey...

[lamiamano]

Yancey & Lux Lewis were the fathers of a sound that came & went with them. Nobody evere did what they played. Boogie Woogie with that bluesy sound,and....what a sound.

The rythm beat,that steady rollin',it's just a blissful sound.UNIQUE!

[BuckshotLaFunke]

lamiamano, thank you so much: at last my search for a comrade is over. You've got it right: SOUND! Sound is what Yancey had, Erroll Garner, Monk, John Lewis, bassists Percy Heath and Charlie Haden. But also classical pianists Vladimir Horowitz, Shura Cherkassky, Wilhelm Kempff and Jorge Bolet. And of course Stan Getz, Ben Webster and that great American poet Lester Young. )Plus actor Al Pacino in his movie speeches!) Best to you!

[jammiebeez]

''Tell 'em about me'' is the title on the b-side of his 78 hmv version of state street special......... i wonder if this is a plea to his record buyers to alert his quintessence to depts of Ethnology/Jazz in US and worldwide universities and colleges/museums??

[woofer32]

tell 'em about me - is my all time favourite, he played it in Ab.

[watchinshadows]

just one word, class.

[ahhreeyell]

Soo good.. *gush*

[zorbazig]

Well, Slowtubbi, we really have common tastes !!! Thanx for posting it ! In the same kind, have you heard "Exercise in Swing" by Johnny Guarnieri All Stars, with Lester Young?... (also on youtube)... If not, hurry up !

[BuckshotLaFunke]

He was the only one, no one plays like he did, those near-ghost notes that are piano tears.

[jacquescovo]

Your are absolutely right BuckshotLaFunke. Jimmy Yancey was equally known for saying ''I know that nobody plays like me, and I am not a blues pianist, I am an ehtnologist of the blues''.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

jacquescovo, many thanks for your reply. I was unaware that Yancey said that! He sure succeeded, didn't he?

[theemperorsclothes]

"near-ghost notes that are piano tears."  Wow.

[lamiamano]

Well,BuckshotLaFunke,it's always been a question of sound & soul.

If you ain't got your sound,the message will not reach and if you don't have soul nobody will understand.

Thanks for the compliment.

You know : Django Reinhardt or Wes Montgomery,

James Brown or Ray Charles, Otis Redding or Stevie Wonder and many others have got it :

UNIQUE SOUND & SOUL.

All the best

[BuckshotLaFunke]

An insightful answer, lamiamano. You make me understand it even better. Oh, while we're at it, let's not forget Johnny Cash!

[lamiamano]

Sure! Johnny Cash,Hank Williams,Ella Fitzgerald,Louis Armstrong,Sonny Boy Williamson,Sonny Terry,Albert King,Albert Collins,BB King,Skip James,Howlin' Wolf,

Duke Ellington,Bill Evans,Ray Brown,T Bone Walker,Aretha Franklin & many more.

When you hear them you say to yourself : " Yeah,that's where it's at ! ". Elegance,soul,depth,swing & beat,harmony & dynamic,original sounds that come from within and that we had never had heard before.

That's what I look for composing & perofrming.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

Ooh whee ... I rest my case.

[lamiamano]

I'm not the person that wants to show off : all I'm saying is what I've learned so far and I know I've got plenty more to learn from anyone.

Music is for the soul in the first place and not for intellectual brains.

So, I thank you for this connection and please keep it open.

By the way, listen to Son House sometimes :

outrageous master !

Thanks.

[acr08807]

Let's not forget the great Dwight Jarrells, the pioneering genius who invented the walking bass line way back in 1871.

[Mikey4lock]

What About Dear Otis Spann?? I think we ought to mention him here? and Memphis Slim too! But as you so rightly say who knows that with out the lead of of Alexis Korner And the great underrated blues harp player Mr C Davies.

Who knows where the path of late fifties and sixies music would have led us

[MasterOfSparks]

Alexis Korner said, "In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."

Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 1 January 1984),was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s[1], Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

[MasterOfSparks]

2)In 1961, Korner and Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R&B music. The group included at various timesCharlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith. It also attracted a wider crowd of mostly younger fans, some of whom occasionally performed with the group, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page.

[JamesPriceJohnson]

he was the best after cow cow davenport

[SpicMick]

right home daddy-o

[Antarblue]

oH yEAH!*****