Jimmy Neely

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Jimmy Neely (* around 1930) is an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( piano ).

Neely led a local jazz quintet in the late 1940s, which included guitarist Mickey Baker in 1947/48 . From the early 1950s he worked in New York City with Charlie Singleton (with whom the first recordings were made in 1951), also with the R&B singer H-Bomb Ferguson , as well as with Red Prysock and Roy Eldridge . In 1960 he presented his debut album Misirlou (Tru-Sound Records), recorded in trio with Michel Mulia (bass) and Rudy Lawless (drums). In 1963 the album The Now! Sound of Jimmy Neeley [sic] on the local label Ali Records. In the 1960s he performed in New York clubs with his own trio; he also worked u. a. on recordings by Betty Roche ( Lightly and Politely ), Willis "Gator" Jackson and Etta Jones . The last recordings were made around 1969, when Neely recorded the album Pure Simplicity with string accompaniment . In the field of jazz he was involved in eleven recording sessions from 1951 to 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Blues Encyclopedia, edited by Edward Komara, Peter Lee. 2004, p. 42.
  2. ↑ Living Blues, issues 149-154 . Edited by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, 2000.
  3. ^ Steven C. Tracy: Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City . 1998, p. 158.
  4. ↑ Jimmy Neeley at Discogs (English)
  5. ^ Billboard October 6, 1962.
  6. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography online, accessed March 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Neely, Jimmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and rhythm & blues musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1930