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...evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date, 1928. The recording is astonishingly faithful...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

High jump: Pete Garland (H); Dean Hennessy (H); Hogan Yancey (Y). 5 feet, 10 inches...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn jr., | Title: YARDLING TRACK TEAM THRASHES YALE 89-46 | 5/15/1942 | See Source »

JAMES GRAHAM CHESNUTT YANCEY B. SMITH San Francisco, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Lieut. Charles R. Yancey and Captain Lowell Bean put together a practical sight for a 75-mm. gun from two lengths of iron pipe (cost: $1), two 15? mirrors, 10? worth of adhesive tape. In casual tests during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: When Better Sights Are Made | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Orleans parade style . . . Another COLUMBIA reissue that should be on your list is Benny Goodman's 1934 Moonglow, featuring Jack and Charlie Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, and Benny himself . . . If you want to know where Meade Lux Lewis got his style, listen to his old-time teacher Jimmy Yancey, on Yancey's Bugle Call and 35th and Dearborn (VICTOR). Jimmy plays in a nice easy-going style, with bass figures somewhat more elaborate than those of Meade Lux . . . Since I wrote about ASCAP-BMI I learned from a very unreliable source that the whole thing has been settled. It seems that...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

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