Word: bix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Man With a Horn, by Dorothy Baker (TIME, June 6, 1938), was inspired by the life & work of the immeasurably talented Bix Beiderbecke. Readers raved over the novel; jazz musicians held it in thorough contempt.* Piano in the Band is like a roomful of rank amateurs through whose affectionate bloobs and bleatings may be heard, if faintly and scratchily, the record they are trying to duplicate: Tin Roof Blues. Whether readers can rave over it is doubtful. What musicians will think of the novel - since they are kind to the nonpretentious - is uncertain. But faulty...
...tremendous controversy has been going on for years among record collectors as to whether the famous Bix Beiderbecke, trumpet player extraordinary and kingpin of jazz history, played on this record. Since a very Bixian horn is to be heard on the record and since Bix was a good friend of Carmichael's, it was thought he was in the band. This has lately been conclusively disproved and Gennett 6311 can now claim fame only as being the first recording of "Stardust" not as a repository for one of Bix's superlative solos...
...Bix Beiderbecke (Hot Record Society). The late, greatest hot cornetist's last recordings with the Wolverines have been remade from surviving discs. Scratchy but of prime interest to hot collectors...
Five minutes of poetic blues piano improvisation in the best "Bix" Beiderbecke In a Mist tradition. A must for aficionados...
...Commodore Record Shop by Jesse Stacy, formerly the Goodman piano ace, now with Bob Crosby. Both sides are blues, one quite slow and the other in a faster, more clipped tempo. Slow side, like most of Jesse's blues, is strongly influences by the sort of changes that Bix Beiderbecke used in "In a Mist." The whole side is built up on variations on one or two ideas of this nature. While at times is is genuinely beautiful blues, a great deal of it is too much of an attempt to be pretty for prettiness' sake itself...