Blues and Boogie/Boogie Bash

Liner Note Author: Dave Henderson.To clear up any possible cause of confusion: although the front cover of this reissue reproduces the front sleeve of Jimmy Yancey's original Blues and Boogie LP, this CD actually combines two albums by two separate artists. One is Yancey's Blues and Boogie; the other is the less famous Freddie Mitchell's Boogie Bash (the spine and back cover do make it clear that the disc contains both of these records, with the booklet reproducing the front cover of Boogie Bash for good measure). What's the link? Well, both were issued as 10" LPs (in the 1940s, according to the sparse liner notes) on the X label, and both are grounded in bluesy boogie, though in quite different ways. Yancey's piano is the only instrumental backing on Blues and Boogie, recorded near the end of his life, mixing instrumentals (which dominate the program) and vocal numbers. The eight songs are a decent sampling of his influential boogie piano, but on the ordinary side material-wise, and p