Word: bix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chances are you've never heard of "Mississippi Mud." By way of explanation, Paul Whiteman's version of it was the rage of the late twenties, for Bix Beiderbecke's cornet solo and the Rhythm Boys' singing. Beyond a doubt Dinah took her cue from the record, but no one who has heard it will be surprised to know that she loused up the song good and plenty. In spite of all her speeches about how she learned to sing by listening to the Negroes back home, da-own Sa-outh, Dinah's singing has very little of the true...
...destroying the musical continuity. When it's "in the groove," a good band rises out of its usual formulas (ordinary jazz is the most rigidly formalized routine in all music) into pure spontaneous variation, and that is the very stuff and foundation of great music. What makes old-fashioned, Bix-Beiderbecke-variety jazz an interest of the few is the same specialized form that keeps, say, Bach's "Art of the Fugue," from becoming widely popular...
Jimmy McPartland, trumpeter in the Bix style, you've met before in the Decca Chicago Jazz Album. His two sides here, made four years before the Chicago album, are even better. Jimmie Noone, clarinetist, is known to most people only as the man who taught Benny Goodman how to play. You won't hear much Goodman, how to play. You won't hear much Goodman, but you will hear the best work Noone has ever recorded...
With the finish in sight, President Franklin W. Johnson retired at 71, and the college got a new president-Harvard's Theology Professor Julius Seelye ("Bix"') Bixler...
Last week Colby sadly postponed moving day until after the war. Materials to finish its new buildings could not be had. With enough plumbing on hand to equip three buildings for Colby coeds, but no more, the college hearkened soberly to the president-elect. Bix announced that when he takes office in July he will give the college something more important than new buildings-a new educational program built around "one central idea." The idea: how man can better his environment...