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...Story of Jazz (narrated by Langston Hughes; Folkways). A neatly telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers a vast additional library of musical lore from West Indies calypso to Ghana folk tales...
...There were a lot of things to learn in becoming a House Master and wife. We found that Mozart piped into the living room had a deadening influence. The musicians in the group just listened intently and the others found the atmosphere heavy going. Now we've settled on Bix Beiderick, whom everyone seems to like...
...topics covered by McLellan were: the "blues," that aped the human voice; the rococo-like ragtime; the tension-relaxation principle of "swing," wonderfully illustrated by a piece called "Nobody Will Room With Me"; the small "spasm" or "skifflle" bands of home-made instruments; the staccato phrasing and polish of Bix Beiderbecke; Paul Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity...
...with a wife and two boys to support, it was quite a decision. Bix bluntly told his wife and family, "how we'd always be broke, how we'd not have enough to eat. how we'd never take any vacation trips." He might have added, had he known the figures, that even if he made the grade by the fall of 1957, his starting salary as a teacher ($3,700) would be nearly $250 less than he would be making as a janitor. But Charlotte Bixby encouraged him to go ahead. While hanging...
Last week, with a B.S. assured him, Bix was invited into the office of School Superintendent J. W. Edwards, signed the agreement that will make him a full-fledged teacher in the Portland school system next fall. But for Bix, all this is only the first step in his new career. Eventually, he hopes to earn an M.A. and to specialize in teaching handicapped children. "You see," says he, "I have a boy who is practically blind. And he wants so much to be accepted as a normal boy, to do the things that are expected of a normal...