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Contributors posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 28, 07Richard Abowitz: Richard Abowitz has written for literary periodicals such as The Kenyon Review, but he is best know ...
A History of Cool Jazz in 100 Tracks posted in Features and Interviews May 14, 09Edited by Ted Gioia ...
Bixology (An Excerpt) posted in Features and Interviews March 09, 08Author Brendan Wolfe is our resident Bixologist at jazz.com -- that is, when he isn’t running the best...
Remembering Bix posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 09, 08Who can be surprised that when Hollywood finally made a big-budget film about a jazz musician, the movie moguls bas...
Bix Beiderbecke: Davenport Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 13, 07This 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...
Jean Goldkette (with Bix Beiderbecke): My Pretty Girl (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 13, 07Jean 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: In a Mist (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 13, 07The 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...
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...
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...
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: 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: 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...
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, 07When 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: 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...
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: 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...
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, 07Records 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...
THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...
Essential Modern Jazz Trumpet posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 26, 07More than thirty writers are contributing to jazz.com, but Matt Leskovic hits higher trumpet notes than the rest of u...
The Best Jazz Web Links: May 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages June 01, 08Cecil Taylor with the Art Ensemble YouTube presents a great video from 1984. Celebr...
Jazz.com is One Year Old Today posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 09, 08Today jazz.com celebrates its first birthday. And what a whirlwind year it has been! A team of more than 50 writer...
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