LibGuides: The Great Gatsby and the 1920's: Bix Beiderbecke and other Music of the Twenties

Bix Beiderbecke CDs

Bix Beiderbecke Vol. 1 Singin' the Blues
Principally jazz ensembles ; the 12th work for piano solo.
Bix Beiderbecke, cornet and/or piano, principally with various jazz ensembles.
Recorded Feb. 4-Sept. 30, 1927, in New York.
Bix Beiderbecke and the Chicago Cornets
This compact disc includes all selections from the 1974 double-album "twofer" reissue except an alternate take of "Buddy's habits" which has been replaced by "Someday sweetheart," not previously included.
Jazz music; performed by Bix Beiderbecke with The Wolverines ; Sioux City Six ; Bix and his Rhythm Jugglers ; The Bucktown Five.

Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's greatest recordings were mostly made in 1927. This definitive CD (reissued in 1990) has most of Beiderbecke's best-loved work, including "Singin' the Blues," "I'm Coming Virginia," "Ostrich Walk," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," and his solo piano classic "In a Mist.".... The beauty of Beiderbecke's horn outshone virtually every other brassman in the 1920s other than Louis Armstrong, and he never sounded better than on these records. ... ~ Scott Yanow

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