Word: bix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candlelight (Bunny Berigan; Victor). Hitherto unrecorded Bix Beiderbecke com position, originally written for piano, played by Trumpeter Berigan and a small band. Also available are four other new recordings of Beiderbecke numbers (Flashes, In a Mist, In the Dark, Davenport Blues) by the same combination...
...tall, slim, loose-limbed man of 37, Len Lye lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about...
...Pundit Panassie concluded that the U.S.,Manhattan, and Manhattan's Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...
This first novel was inspired by the music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano...
...moments of feverish musical excitement. It comes out strong when she describes the naïve snobbery of Jack Stuart's Collegians, with its clean-cut young leader artfully squelching better musicians than himself. Why Author Baker wrote a trimmed-up novel instead of a straight biography of Bix Beiderbecke is a question Young Man with a Horn raises but does not answer...