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Remembering Bix: A Memoir Of The Jazz Age
Remembering Bix A Memoir Of The Jazz Age Author:Ralph Berton, Nat Hentoff Never before in paperback: A rare eyewitness appreciation of a jazz legend Bix has always inspired 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--just as Beiderbecke's genius was flowering, before he died in 1931 at age twenty-eight. Listening fr... more »om behind the piano, tagging along to honky-tonks and jam sessions, Berton heard some of the most extraordinary music of the century, and he brings Bix and his era alive with a remarkable combination of the excitement of youth and the perspective of the five decades that followed-decades that confirmed Bix's place in the pantheon of jazz.« less