Jimmy Beasley

In the mid-to-late 1950s, pianist Jimmy Beasley recorded some of the most faithfully Fats Domino-like music of the period for Modern Records. Beasley, unlike Domino, wasn't from New Orleans. But the resemblance on many of his tracks to Domino wasn't an accident, as much of his Modern material was recorded in Cosimo Studios in New Orleans, using famed Crescent City songwriter-arranger Dave ...more