Bix Beiderbecke & the Chicago Cornets - CD

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Bix Beiderbecke & the Chicago Cornets: Release Notes: Muze 
Full performer name: Bix Beiderbecke & The Chicago Cornets.Personnel: Bix Beiderbecke (cornet); Frank Trumbauer (C melody saxophone); George Johnson (tenor saxophone); Jimmy McPartland, Muggsy Spanier (cornet); Guy Carey, Tommy Dorsey, Miff Mole, George Brunies, Al Gande (trombone); Min Leibrook (tuba); Volley DeFaut, Don Murray (clarinet); Jimmy Hartwell (clarinet, alto saxophone); Mel Stitzel, Paul Mertz, Rube Bloom, Dick Voynow (piano); Marvin Saxbe (banjo, guitar, cymbal); Bob Gillette (banjo); Tommy Gargano, Vic Berton, Vic Moore (drums).Recorded in Richmond, Virginia and New York from 1924-1925. Includes liner notes by Max Harrison from a previous Milestone reissue.Bix Beiderbecke.Personnel: Marvin Saxbe (guitar, banjo, cymbals); Bob Gillette, Howdy Quicksell (banjo); Jimmy Hartwell (clarinet, alto saxophone); Don Murray , Volly DeFaut (clarinet); George "Happy" Johnson (tenor saxophone); Frankie Trumbauer (C-melody saxophone); Jimmy McPartland, Muggsy Spanier (cornet); Georg Brunis, Guy Carey, Al Gande, Miff Mole, Tommy Dorsey (trombone); Min Leibrook (tuba); Paul Mertz, Dick Voynow, Mel Stitzel, Rube Bloom (piano); Tom Gargano, Vic Berton, Vic Moore (drums).Producer: Orrin KeepnewsReissue Producer: Orrin Keepnews.Liner Note Author: Max Harrison.Recording information: 02/18/1924-01/26/1925.Photographer: Culver Pictures.Unknown Contributor Role: Bix Beiderbecke.Considered by some to be one of the first modernists in jazz, Bix Beiderbecke was certainly the first important white man to contribute to the music in a lasting and meaningful way. Ten years before Lester Young, and nearly 30 before the West Coast sound embodied by Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan, Beiderbecke was playing a cool alternative to Louis Armstrong's hot ensembles. These tracks represent his earliest efforts with The Wolverines (he was just shy of his 21st birthday) as well as some studio pickup groups. Bix's distinctive tone was already present; though his style was in its formative stages, his fecund imagination consistently yields melodic invention, rhythmic precision, and spontaneity.On "Big Boy" we hear him switching between cornet and piano, his second instrument on which he had ample, swinging facility. The Chicago Cornets referred to in the title are two Bix epigones, Muggsy Spanier and Jimmy McPartland, whose performances (which don't include Beiderbecke) are less strong, but instructive nonetheless.

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Performer Bix Beiderbecke , Bix Beiderbecke & The Chica...
Producer(s) Orrin Keepnews (reissue) , Orrin Keepnews (Reissue)