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Bill Evans & Stan Getz: The Peacocks (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 26, 07The first time I met Stan Getz, at his California home in 1983, he made a tape of a Bill Evans recording for me as a ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BILL EVANS
Bill Evans’s career as a jazz pianist started with little fanfare. His first leader date, New Jazz Conceptions fro...
Bix Beiderbecke: Royal Garden Blues (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 20, 07When the Goldkette outfit disbanded, Adrian Rollini rounded up a few Old Reliables for a gig at the Club New Yorker, ...
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Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra (featuring Bix Beiderbecke): Riverboat Shuffle (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 08, 09When Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines recorded 'Riverboat Shuffle" in 1924, it was Hoagy Carmichael's first record...
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Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Clarinet Marmalade (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Set to wax earlier on the same day as “Singin’ the Blues,” “Clarinet Marmalade” is notable for a few reasons: Bix, fo...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 17, 07Bix needed Louis (at least in retrospect) to define his style; he needed Trumbauer just to get through the day. The s...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: I'm Coming Virginia (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 17, 07In this, his longest solo, Bix is at the height of his powers. He eschews the gutbucket growls and half-valves that w...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE
Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Compared to “I’m Coming, Virginia,” “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” is all light and Caravaggio. It’s cheerful, down...
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Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Borneo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Bix and Tram were jazz’s odd couple. Tram was all business; Bix, increasingly, was all drink. Tram insisted on playin...
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Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Krazy Kat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 24, 07Hollywood's Young Man With a Horn (1950), writes film scholar David Sterritt, is "loosely based" on Bix Beiderbecke a...
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"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...
Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 24, 07"Just as happy as a cow chewin' on her cud," regales Bing Crosby, "when the darkies beat their feet on the Missi...
Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues – as heard in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 17, 07By the time Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool was first marketed as such (1954), cool jazz had been around for 30 years...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN
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Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music March 09, 08How ironic that someone named Whiteman popularized jazz among the general American populace, largely by sucking much ...
Bix Beiderbecke: Sorry (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 17, 07French biographer Jean Pierre Lion twice uses the word “astonishing” to describe “Sorry.” Bix himself boasted, “I hav...
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Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Bix Beiderbecke: Louisiana (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 17, 07After Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana in 2005, Americans expressed outrage at their federal government's lagga...
Bix Beiderbecke: Jazz Me Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 02, 07When a high-school teacher in Hollywood's juvenile-delinquent flick Blackboard Jungle (1955) plays this track for his...
Miles Davis: All Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 22, 07Miles Davis recorded many classic performances during his long career, but this ranks among the most beloved and best...
Miles Davis: Fran-Dance (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music April 20, 08Miles Davis's celebrated appearance at 1955's Newport Jazz Festival had marked his official comeback (meaning the jaz...
Laswell, Bill (William) posted in Encyclopedia February 20, 09Bassist and producer Bill Laswell has always kept his ears and imagination open. His riffs heard around the world on ...
Bix Beiderbecke: From Monday On (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 20, 07Paul Whiteman was like a giant, mostly benign mothership that swallowed up available musicians like Bix and his buddi...
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Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...
Bunny Berigan: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 02, 07When Hollywood needed a hyperlink to the nostalgically seedy 1930s for Save the Tiger (1973) and Chinatown (1974), th...
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