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Celebrating Bix: the Bix Beiderbecke Centennial All Stars Celebrate His 100th Birthday.(Sound Recording Review)
Arbors ARCD 19271, 2003.
The centennial of Bix Beiderbecke's birth passed in 2003 without anything like the fanfare it deserved. Both as a cornettist and as a bandleader he exerted a tremendous influence on the development of jazz in the early twentieth century, and his shadow remains long; only Louis Armstrong (and, by extension, Buddy Bolden) are more significant players of his instrourent from the same time and place. His recordings with the Wolverines from the early 1920s remain classics of the genre. In honor of his one hundredth birthday, the Arbors label (which is one of the best and most prolific record companies currently devoted to the preservation of traditional .jazz) organized a group of musicians who specialize in the jazz of this period, created new arrangements of classic tunes associated with Beiderbecke, and ...
- Davenport, Iowa, remembers hometown boy Bix Beiderbecke.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 20, 2004 700+ words
...who put Davenport, Iowa, on the map was native son Leon Bix Beiderbecke, a bona fide jazz genius who may have held more affection...for him," says Rich J. Johnson, music director of the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival. "Les Swanson _ who died not long...
- BIX BEIDERBECKE BIX LIVES BLUEBIRD
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ray Murphy, Globe Staff March 23, 1989 700+ words
Leon Bix Beiderbecke (1903-31), the original Young Man with a Horn, was the best known of the early white jazz players. This album demonstrates...
- Golden tone in giddy era; Bix Beiderbecke at center of novel about jazzmen and...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 15, 2003 700+ words
...to the American West and closest to this one, "Remembering Song: Encounters with the New Orleans Jazz Tradition." Bix Beiderbecke, the cornet player and pianist from Davenport, Iowa, who in a short lifetime (1903-1931) became known for his lovely...
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- Magazine article from: Sing Out! Wald, Elijah March 22, 2004 700+ words
...folk scene with the musical training to attempt an album like this. The core pieces here are a series of arrangements of Bix Beiderbecke's piano compositions for a chamber ensemble of violin, brass and woodwinds, building on Beiderbecke's fondness for...
- What's new in music racks.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service November 7, 2000 700+ words
...Clarence Williams' Blue Five ("Wild Cat Blues") and Frank Trumbauer's Orchestra with the incredible Bix Beiderbecke ("Riverboat Shuffle"). And it affords swing bands like Benny Moten's and Benny Goodman's the respect they deserve...
- The Secondary Colors: Three Essays.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction O'Rear, Joseph Allen March 22, 1997 700+ words
...bread, patently futile stupidity--like the dumb giants of storybook fame--cashmere, Bix Beiderbecke's cornet wailing on `Riverboat Shuffle' . . ." and so on, for another half page or so. Endless lists of pure desiderata, sometimes...
- Lazing in the Shade of Hoagy Carmichael
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post JONATHAN YARDLEY April 10, 1989 700+ words
...invokes that same sense of loss: Bix Beiderbecke, the cornetist from Iowa whose death...glimmer of that moment to be heard in "Riverboat Shuffle," a Carmichael composition from...doesn't matter. Listen to Bix on "Riverboat Shuffle," leaping and soaring into his own...
- Stardust Memories;Hoagy Carmichael's Sterling Standards
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Richard Harrington December 25, 1988 700+ words
...and the earliest compositions included here, 1925's "Riverboat Shuffle" (performed by the Frankie Trumbauer orchestra) and...Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra with cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and a palpably nervous Carmichael on piano and vocals...
Source: HighBeam Research, Celebrating Bix: the Bix Beiderbecke Centennial All Stars Celebrate...