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Cornetist/pianist/composer Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz's man who got away - the James Dean, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain of his day. Born in Davenport, Iowa into an upper-middle-class family, Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing amazing new energy and unprecedented maturity to the music and influencing generations of musicians. After a bout battling alcoholism, Bix died in Sunnyside, Queens on August 6,...
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Stunning illustrations provide a near-wordless graphic exploration highlighting the career of Leon Bix Beiderbecke, one of the most innovative jazz soloists of the 1920s next to the legendary Louis Armstrong. While composing and recording some of the landmark music in the early years of the genre, Bix struggled with personal demons, facing the disapproval of his conservative parents and an increasing dependence on alcohol. Presented in predominantly...
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By 1924 to 1928 jazz is everywhere in America and spreading abroad. For the first time, soloists and singers take center stage, transforming the music with their distinctive voices. This episode traces the careers of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Ethel Waters, Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazz artist and Benny Goodman, the son of Jewish immigrants.
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"Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to ́cooĺ jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in 1931́at the age of twenty-eight. It was this meteoric rise and fall, combined with the searing originality of his playing and the mystery of his characteŕwho...
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"In this biography with a difference, Ralph Berton seeks to discover the influences, reveal the forks in the path of Bix's destiny, tracing the psychological odyssey of a legendary figure of the Jazz Age, an enormously talented artist universally loved and admired who yet could find nothing - not even his music, which he endlessly criticized - worth living for. Unlike the popularized versions of his life, the real-life Bix was a far more interesting...
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