James Jimmy Blythe Archives - Chicago SouthSide Piano

James “Jimmy” Blythe – Player Piano Rolls Part 2 – Popular Songs

Posted in - Biography & Historical & James Jimmy Blythe & Piano Roll on April 22nd 2017 0 Comments

This section will present Blythe’s piano roll recordings of popular songs, such as fox trots and waltzes of the day. Frequently, these performances are highly jazz-tinged (even the waltzes) and exhibit Blythe’s characteristic keyboard trademarks. On some, Blythe added hot South Side coda sections to otherwise commonplace tunes, and these are special for …

James “Jimmy” Blythe – Player Piano Rolls Part 1 – Jazz and Blues

Posted in - Biography & Historical & James Jimmy Blythe & Piano Roll on April 22nd 2017 0 Comments

ddie Blues - the only known solo recording by Blythe for the Billings Roll Co. (as James 'Jimmy')

Collectors interested in the jazz and blues history of Chicago’s South Side of the 1920s have most certainly heard of this enormously gifted and prolific artist. On the merits of his disc recordings alone, he stands as one of the founding fathers of that particular pianistic style known to us as “South Side …