Remembering Bix : a memoir of the jazz age /

Remembering Bix : a memoir of the jazz age /

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As Nat Hentoff says, "Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring". Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unmatched master of the cornet. Ralph Berton was privileged enough to have been a fan -- and younger brother of Bix's drummer -- jus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berton, Ralph
Corporate Author: Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2000
[Cambridge, Mass.] : [2000]
Subjects:
Beiderbecke, Bix, > 1903-1931
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography
CHR 2000
PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Jazz musicians
United States
Biographies
Table of Contents:
  • 1. August 6th, 1931
  • 2. What Shall Be Done with Little Bickie?
  • 3. Jazz
  • 4. Changes
  • 5. Lake Forest
  • 6. The Windy City
  • 7. The Real Thing
  • 8. Birds of Passage
  • 9. Family Portrait
  • 10. Listening
  • 11. Surprises
  • 12. A Reluctant Hero
  • 13. Some Chicago Afternoons
  • 14. Exploring
  • 15. Family Portrait II - My Brother Gene
  • 16. Values! Values!
  • 17. An Addition to the Family
  • 18. Miller Beach
  • 19. Midsummer Night Dreams
  • 20. Jazzing It Up at Skippy's
  • 21. Lessons
  • 22. End of Summer
  • 23. How We Got to New York
  • 24. Autumn in New York
  • 25. Our Separate Ways
  • 26. Zenith, Decline & Fall
  • 27. August 11th, 1931

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