Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke - Sorry

The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008

in post excuse us! from Play It As It Lays .

Steuart Liebig Tee-Tot Quartet: Always Outnumbered

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

The latest concoction from bassist Steuart Liebig is a conglomeration of progressive jazz and American roots music. An unlikely combo indeed, yet the leader and his quartet pull it off and make it all sound quite endearing and vibrant, to complement the organic attributes devised within the acoustic-electric format...

EVENT: Jazz Memorabilia Show in New York on July 12, August 9, and September 13

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008

When: Saturdays - July 12th August 9th Sept. 13th Where: 155 West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023 Hours: 10am to 2pm Admission: FREE Information: 212-579-0689 Tons of rare jazz items will be available including records (LPs, 45 rpm, 78 rpm), sheet music, photographs, posters, books, magazines, jazz art, miscellaneous items...

Tragedy: A weird theme for Feel Good Friday

The Flypaper Theory (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008

So many of my musical heroes died before their time. Heck, before they were 30... Here' the incredible Bix Beiderbecke, a Jazz-age prince whose horn-blowing skills were only matched by this guy , making with some extraordinary mellow jazz. He died at 28, in a fit of DTs in a filthy little apartment in Queens. As Louis Armstrong once said, lots of people tried to blow like Bix, but none of them have...

JAZZ PERFORMER BURNAP DIES

PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008

Jazz performer CAMPBELL BURNAP has died from cancer at the age of 68. The trombonist and radio presenter, dubbed Mr Charm, performed alongside Acker Bilk during his career. He also brought jazz to the masses through a BBC radio show, performing the hits of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. No further details of Burnap’s death are available [...]

• Jazz Performer Burnap Dies - Contactmusic Ltd

David Remnick’s Essential Jazz

92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

David Remnick of The New Yorker has compiled a list of 100 Essential Jazz Albums. What follows is a list compiled with the help of my New Yorker colleague Richard Brody. These hundred titles are meant to provide a broad sampling of jazz classics and wonders across the music's century-long history. Early New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, modal jazz, hard bop, free jazz, third stream, and fusion...

Jazz Roams the World

Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008

Jazz is a music for grown-ups, and idiom beloved---and, for political reasons, reviled---around the world.

Chagall, Nietzsche, and Jazz: Open Thread

The Agonist (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008

I'm only qualified to discuss jazz..... Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) is, in the words of one critic, “jazz’s Number One Saint.” He died a gin-soaked and pathetic death in a stuffy Queens apartment house, screaming that Mexicans under his bed were trying to kill him. Yet he will always be remembered as the “Young Man with a Horn” – purity itself – that corny white kid from Iowa whose baby-faced picture...

Chet Baker: Twenty Years

Rifftides (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Chet Baker's life of beauty and pain ended twenty years ago tonight on an Amsterdam sidewalk. He may have killed himself. That is unlikely, in my opinion. He may have fallen from his hotel window. He may have been...

Bronx Banter: How Old is Old?

Bronx Banter (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008

Last week, I read , where he mentioned that he listens to Old School Wu Tang Clan. A few months ago, I had a discussion with a kid at work who claimed that Biggie Smalls and Tupac were Old School. Which leads me to this: What exactly determines whether you are from the Old School or not? Does it simply mean anything that is more than ten years old? Whitey Herzog is from the Old School. Ditto Robert...

Classic Jazz Orchestra, The Tall Ship, Glasgow

The Herald (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008

Review: The Tall Ship was comman-deered by Ken Mathieson and his crew on Sunday night for the first of two concerts in the week that they launch their first CD on the Lake label.

The Scenic Route: Eastwood Lane

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008

Many towns have a street named Eastwood Lane, but it is also the name of a composer. Little is known about his early years, and he seems to have had no formal music education; he did not publish his first music until he’d reached his early thirties. All of Lane’s music was composed for [...]

Happy Birthday, Freddie!

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

In honor of legendary jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s 70th birthday, AMG takes a look back at some of his best work on the CTI label in the ’70s. While Hubbard made his name with his now classic Blue Note albums of the ’60s, his soulful, stylistically varied, and often avant-garde jazz-funk/fusion albums of the ’70s [...]

Drinking and Random Dad Fact #3

Random Stuff and Ramblings (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008

It was Jo's leaving do on Saturday night, and after a quick stop in The Litten Tree (packed full of Wolves fans watching their team get thrashed, Man U fans watching their team win and various chavs) we dashed through the rain to The Combermere Arms . Matt had randomly appeared at work during the day (the new Lee Child book is out) and so he was there too. Poor Matt felt a little young for once I think...

`Memphis Blues Again'

Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008

My oldest son and his girlfriend have seen the Mississippi River for the first time, from the heights of Chickasaw Bluff in Memphis. A Missouri poet wrote: “I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable…” They started a road trip last weekend in New York City, bound for North Carolina, Nashville and Memphis. It was a music-fueled odyssey....