Here comes another suggestive delicious album Estella Mama Yancey was born in Chicago in 1896 and she never devoted completely to music, except on some notable exceptions, always together with her husband, the amazing piano player Jimmy Yancey In 1983 Axel Zwingenberger got her back, for the pleasure of all fans, in this second to last posthumous album, as the last one Maybe I’ll Cry was released only two weeks later, where Mama was backed on piano by Erwin Helfer and recorded for the small label Red Beans, three years before she passed away in 1986 The Blues Of Mama Yancey includes twelve songs, only played with piano and voice, all them of an incredible beauty Estella ‘Mama’ Yancey gives all her skill and lyrical ressources, on a dramatic, passionate but at the same time very melodical performing, that will immediately captivate listeners, unable to get out of all these blues alive Axel’s valuable contribution on piano makes the whole recording become a piece of great historical value A priceless jewel every blues fan should take into account