Word: bix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated that when Armstrong played Chicago, listening musicians did their listening, "worshipfully." Among those mentioned was Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke . . . One night at the Plantation Cafe on Chicago's South Side, Armstrong and Beiderbecke were having a battle of the horns. When Louis heard Bix, he broke into tears and admitted he could never play as well...
...jazz. He had formed "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five" (Satchmo, Clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Trombonist Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr on the banjo and second wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on the piano) to make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without...
...bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen and finally, to Hackett's considerable embarrassment, to write a moony, swoony tribute to his "dignity" in Vogue...
Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
Shackle the graves of Bolden, Bix and Berigan before they rotate, and send those 4,200 squares in Chicago back to the sincere "Three...