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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...

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...

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...

Lang, Eddie (Salvatore Massaro) posted in Encyclopedia January 17, 09

Eddie Lang popularized the guitar as a lead and rhythm instrument in jazz. A versatile and lyrical player, his recor...

Ethel Waters: Black and Blue (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

April Fool's Day, 1930. Ethel Waters covers a self-pitying song from Broadway's Hot Chocolates (1929) that Louis Arms...

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...

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