Word: bix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live" jam sessions for the summer. However, the appearance of two new excellent jazz programs on the radio has done much to fill this void. Wednesday evenings at 7:30 o'clock, Cain's "Cain Is Able" pay the keep for half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music is apt at times to stray a little afield, but generally speaking pure improvisation predominates. Collectors are invited...
Frankie Trumbauer, famed hot-saxophoning crony of the late great cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, was a new test pilot at a Kansas City plane plant-putting B-25s through their first aerial paces...
...Nichols album is astonishly good. A lot of people, including myself, have decried Nichols in comparison with his fellow-cornetist, Bix Beiderbecke, but in the company of such stars as Goodman, Teagarden, Krupa, etc., he plays above himself. There's still a lot of repression and self-consciousness, but there's also a good beat and a few good ideas. I wouldn't dare play Teschemacher's "China Boy" afterward, but the album is full of good, ripe jazz...
Other albums, the Decca Chicago Album, and the Bud Freeman album of the old Wolverine numbers of Bix Beiderbecke, are living proofs of the non-existence of true Chicago style since its decline at the beginning of the thirties. The present-day Chicagoans, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Pee-wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, George Wettling, and all the rest have stuck together, but their music is not a style...
Then Frank Bixler dropped a set shot to tie the count, and after Budko converted a foul shot, Bix dropped the winning deuce with just five seconds remaining on a set from the side...