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Biography
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Jimmy Blythe
Real name: James Louis Blythe
Effective period / Period of releases: 1954
Jazz/blues pianist from Chicago.Born May 1901 in South Keene, Kentucky.
Died June 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, from meningitis.
He recorded dozens of piano rolls in the early 1920s and began cutting records in 1924.
He appeared on hundred of small group recording sessions for Vocalion, Paramount and Champion.