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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 & 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Frank Trumbauer: I Never Miss the Sunshine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 10, 08

When this record was released in 1923, other sax players quickly took notice. Trumbauer stretches out for a full cho...

Frank Trumbauer: San (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Seven months after this session, Trumbauer would record for the first time with Bix Beiderbecke, but here he is the s...

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...

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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Jean Goldkette (with Bix Beiderbecke): My Pretty Girl (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 13, 07

Jean Goldkette had fired Bix for his poor reading skills, but later rehired him, forming the hottest white dance band...

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...

A Teetotaler's Toast for Tram! posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 10, 08

We can’t let our tribute to Bix Beiderbecke pass without giving a passing nod to his closest musical associate, saxop...

Beiderbecke, Leon 'Bix' posted in Encyclopedia January 07, 08

       Bix Beiderbecke, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Cornetist Leon ‘Bix’...

GRAMMY® Hall of Fame Jazz Singles posted in Features and Interviews January 20, 08

"The Hall of Fame Award," explains The Recording Academy's website, "was established in 1973 to honor recordings of l...

Russell, Pee Wee (Charles Ellsworth) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Pee Wee Russell took the clarinet from New Orleans out into the world. Still today, he stands as one of its most expr...

Lester Young: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 24, 09

Although Lester Young will forever be associated with Kansas City jazz, he came from a Louisiana family and spent muc...

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