Word: yancey
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...like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago's South Side knew that Jimmy Yancey was back...
...when Bob Crosby's band began playing a piece called the Yancey Special, no one knew who Yancey was. But the piece caught on, and the disc jockeys and record companies began hunting for Jimmy. They found him at the White Sox ballpark, cutting grass. He said he didn't even own a piano. Jimmy made a few records and had a brief burst of popularity, then had a stroke. His left hand stiffened up, and for a while he couldn't play...
...Chicago's bleak Northwest Side, Louis Armstrong had blown in town and out again, with his new sextet. Those who knew their way around the neon wilderness of the Negro South Side could still sometimes find Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons pounding out noisy boogie in a couple of dingy cafes...
...idea got prompt support from Manhattan's pinko PM and the Boston Record. Joe Yancey, well-known Negro track coach, predicted that most Negro athletes would not go to San Antonio. But the red-faced A.A.U. stuck by its guns, said that special arrangements had been made in San Antonio to house and entertain competing Negroes...
...Liberia's elected rulers have sometimes acted on other principles. In 1930, a League of Nations Commission accused former (1928) Vice President Allen N. Yancey of conniving with other Liberian officials to pawn hundreds of native laborers into near-slavery. Tubman was Yancey's legal adviser...