Jimmy Bell

b. 29 August 1910, Peoria, Illinois, USA, d. 31 Dec 1987, Peoria, Illinois, USA. A physique with few recordings, Bell was common from the journeyman musician who performs what he must to make a living, while harbouring higher ambitions. Starting violin lessons at age 10, he shifted to your guitar, trumpet and trombone before buying piano. Bell spent his early musical existence around St. Louis, where he led a little group in the past due 30s, Jimmie ‘Lightning’ Bell And His Swinging Pet cats. Ahead of that, he previously worked with rings such as for example Earl Vehicle Dyke’s Plantation Natural cotton Pickers and Al Williams’ St. Louis Syncopators. In the past due 40s, Bell created the six-piece Gentlemen Of Golf swing, including Andrew Harris on bass. Harris and guitarist Leo Blevins followed him on the 1948 program that created two singles, one on Aristocrat, the additional constituting the 3rd single around the after that new Chess Information label. Although he stated never to have already been a consumer, Bell was imprisoned double for ownership of heroin. An additional 3 years was offered from 1970 for assisting and abetting an abortion. In 1978, he released three singles by himself GDS label, and was imprisoned just as before, this time around for ownership of counterfeit meals stamps. His just album was composed of tunes documented in Shreveport in 1949, plus a 1978 concert at Illinois Central University and material documented in his own house right before his incarceration.