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Scripters Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart have added a minimum of embroidery to this story. As Snyder, James Cagney has his best role in years and serves it well, mounting to successive levels of exasperation with as much ease and artistry as Bix Beiderbecke ever displayed in reaching the high note on his cornet. Cameron Mitchell makes the luckless Alderman a consistent and believable hu man being as well as a clay pigeon. Those who remember the sexy serenity with which Ruth Etting handled such numbers as the title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends...
...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...
...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...