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The Amazing Jimmi Mayes
Jimmi Mayes
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Description for The Amazing Jimmi Mayes
Hardcover. For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman beside some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. Mayes lived through racial segregation, the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the integration of rock bands, and the emergence of Motown. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 224 pages, 32 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. He began his career playing the blues in the juke joints of Mississippi, sharpened his trade under the mentorship of drum legends Sam Lay and Fred Below in the steamy nightclubs of south Chicago, and hit it big in New York City behind such music legends as Tommy Hunt from the Flamingos, Marvin Gaye, and James Brown.
Mayes played his drums behind blues giants Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Reed, Robert Junior Lockwood, Earl Hooker, Junior ... Read more
For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. He began his career playing the blues in the juke joints of Mississippi, sharpened his trade under the mentorship of drum legends Sam Lay and Fred Below in the steamy nightclubs of south Chicago, and hit it big in New York City behind such music legends as Tommy Hunt from the Flamingos, Marvin Gaye, and James Brown.
Mayes played his drums behind blues giants Little Walter Jacobs, Jimmy Reed, Robert Junior Lockwood, Earl Hooker, Junior ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
American Made Music Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781617039164
SKU
V9781617039164
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About Jimmi Mayes
Jimmi Mayes, Chicago, Illinois, learned his trade as a teenager in the juke joints around Jackson, Mississippi. He went on to perform with many well-known artists, including Little Walter Jacobs, Marvin Gaye, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.|V. C. Speek, Minooka, Illinois, is the author of ""God Has Made Us a Kingdom"": James Strang and the Midwest Mormons. Speek is ... Read more
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