Word: bix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time that Kennedy was blowing his trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...
...When MacPartland does let loose with something like China Boy, Jazz Me Blues, etc., he faintly resembles Bix, but nowhere near enough to warrant the title of the article being "Like Bix...
With regard to your article . . . entitled "Like Bix" [TIME...
...backing Jimmy was getting was pretty bad. The drum was off the beat and wife Marion's piano was a little too refined. But people said Jimmy had never been better. Said one: "He's still got it . . . it's good . . . it's like Bix...
...stood in the bow with his golden cornet and played The Blue Bells of Scotland, sweet and lovingly. Then he broke into half a dozen low-driving hot choruses. One witness said: "They like to never got that ship docked. That horn held up the war." Jimmy kept Bix's golden horn in his pack when he landed in Normandy. One night, at a U.S.O. show, he met a girl named Marion Page, billed as "England's Queen of the Swing Piano." He got himself put on detached service so he could travel with the show, married...