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Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Krazy Kat (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Hollywood's Young Man With a Horn (1950), writes film scholar David Sterritt, is "loosely based" on Bix Beiderbecke a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"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...

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra (featuring Bix Beiderbecke): Riverboat Shuffle (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

When Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines recorded 'Riverboat Shuffle" in 1924, it was Hoagy Carmichael's first record...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Bix Beiderbecke (with Frankie Trumbauer & Eddie Lang): For No Reason at All in C (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

This track is unusual among the recordings made by Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Eddie Lang and other members o...

Bix Beiderbecke: In a Mist (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music May 09, 09

Bix Beiderbecke was not a professional pianist, and this track is our only record of his keyboard work. Yet this is ...

Bix Beiderbecke: Louisiana (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

After Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana in 2005, Americans expressed outrage at their federal government's lagga...

Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer: Mississippi Mud (Rating: 75/100) posted in Music March 09, 08

How ironic that someone named Whiteman popularized jazz among the general American populace, largely by sucking much ...

Bix Beiderbecke: In a Mist (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 13, 07

The timing of “In a Mist” is off. Bix played the first take and it was too short; the second take ran long. It was no...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Bix Beiderbecke: There's a Cradle in Caroline (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music April 02, 08

If this song about a homesick Tar Heel lacks sincerity, perhaps it's because the singer was born in Syracuse, New Yor...

Bix Beiderbecke: Jazz Me Blues (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 02, 07

When a high-school teacher in Hollywood's juvenile-delinquent flick Blackboard Jungle (1955) plays this track for his...

Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke: Clarinet Marmalade (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Set 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: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Compared to “I’m Coming, Virginia,” “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” is all light and Caravaggio. It’s cheerful, down...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Hoagy Carmichael & Bix Beiderbecke: Barnacle Bill the Sailor (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Records hardly get stranger than this. An integrated, all-star cast convenes to record a tune most of them thought wa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Bix Beiderbecke: Sorry (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

French biographer Jean Pierre Lion twice uses the word “astonishing” to describe “Sorry.” Bix himself boasted, “I hav...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Bix Beiderbecke: Royal Garden Blues (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

When the Goldkette outfit disbanded, Adrian Rollini rounded up a few Old Reliables for a gig at the Club New Yorker, ...

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, 07

Bix 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, 07

In 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...

Bix Beiderbecke: Davenport Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 13, 07

This is Bix’s first recording under his own name and includes musicians from the Jean Goldkette Orchestra, an organiz...

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: Borneo (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Bix and Tram were jazz’s odd couple. Tram was all business; Bix, increasingly, was all drink. Tram insisted on playin...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL BIX BEIDERBECKE

     Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in t...

Bix Beiderbecke: Singin' the Blues – as heard in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 17, 07

By 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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