Word: bix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turntables, summed up: "Frankly, I feel like a complete heel playing this terrible music all day. But, I tell you this, anybody who's got a good rating has gotta play lousy music. For five years in the beginning I tried to play good stuff- Louis, the Duke, Bix. I starved. Then one day I played a Lombardo record; a week later I had a sponsor. Let's face it, this is a bastardized...
Shades of Bix (Jimmy McPartland and his band; Brunswick LP). Trumpeter McPartland undertakes the touchy task of recapturing the style and feeling of the cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, in the process socks out some fine Dixieland jazz. The combo, a duplication of Bix's own Gang (including a hoarse-voiced baritone sax), gets a lift from the inspired drumming of George Wettling...
YOUNG Benny's inspiration was the true blues that Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and dozens of other greats brought up from the South. His companions were jazz-crazy youths named Davey Tough, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke. Fame came to all of them; Benny copped the crown...
...playing the trumpet ("I was playing before Louis Armstrong got out of the Waif's Home"). At 16 he formed his own Original Memphis Five, soon found himself proprietor of one of the most popular little outfits in the U.S. For a while, a youngster named Bix Beiderbecke, who was to die at 28 and become a jazz immortal, carried Phil's horn for him, listening and learning. Between 1917 and 1925 the Memphis Five made 3,011 records...
...blows the old tunes-That's A Plenty, Milneburg Joys, High Society, Tin Roof Blues. For the departed jazzmen whose music he is reviving, he has a special thought: "I keep thinking of that good band up there with Gabriel. Of course Gabriel's the greatest-Bix is probably playing second horn up there-it must be a wonderful band...