YANCEY, JAMES EDWARD (JIMMY
). Boogie-woogie pianist ( in Chicago, Illinois; in Chicago). His father was a guitarist/singer, and a brother, Alonzo, became a pianist. He began performing professionally as a child as a singer and dancer and toured with vaudeville troupes at an early age. He toured in England before World War I. About 1915 he settled in Chicago, where he was active as a club pianist and house-rent party
pianist; at the same time...