Jimmy Yancy was natural inside Chicago, Illinois on September 20 of (depending on the source) 1894, 1895, or 1898. His older brother Alonzo Yancey was the piano player too; their father was a guitar player. Jimmy Yancey began performing as a singer within road shows in the period of his childhood.

Jimmy Yancey was the noted piano player by 1915 and influenced younger musicians rather Meade "Lux" Lewis and Albert Ammons, but didn't record until 1939.

When he played around the boogie-woogie woogie style, by using the heavy perennial figure in the left h& & melodic decoration in the best hand, his swimming was delicate and subtle, like than disk drive.

A portion of Yancey's distinctive style was that he played withwithin the kind of keys however universally ended each song in E flat. These endings added the strangely satisfying dissonance to each performance.

Virtually all of his recordings were of solo soft, however late within his career he likewise recorded by having vocals by his married woman, Estelle Yancey, under a charge Jemmy & Mama Yancey. It recorded a 1st album ever mass produced by Atlantic Records.

Throughout his life, Yancey saved the job when groundsman for the Chicago White Sox.

Yancey died inside Chicago in September 17, 1951. He was inducted into a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.