Leon Bismark "Bix" Biedernecke, born this day in 1903, was a jazz cornet and piano player and composer whose influential style has echoed over the years since his all-too-early death age 28. He was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame with three songs with a "qualitative or historical significance": "Singin' the Blues" (1927), "In a Mist" (1927), and "Georgia on My Mind" (1930).
"Singin' the Blues":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9GxhyxV8DI
"In a Mist":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5Zd4p87Jk
"Georgia (on My Mind)," with Hoagy Carmichael & His Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoKvT9VgCIQ
"I'm Coming Virginia":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8G7_uDS484
"Goin' Places," with Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfLu3rd1MLc
"San," with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcXBzzf_MiA
"At the Jazz Band Ball" (Bix Biederbecke & his Gang):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89CgxUsTiI
"Clarinet Marmalade":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RpE9TwGJCw
"Royal Garden Blues" (Bix Biederbecke & His Gang):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8HRrdAt7U
"Riverboat Shuffle":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4b5R-9_S4E
"Jazz Me Blues" (Bix Biederbecke & His Gang):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECrTilYxJ-s
"Tiger Rag" (Bix Biederbecke & The Wolverines):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoH7rJQ2Yy8
I hope that got your feet tappin' and your body swayin'.
In case you haven't seen this, about the pioneering Chicagoland Indiana recording company that did a lot of Bix, Armstrong, other jazz stars, folk and more: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-music-makers-of-gennett-records-eO6qiL/
ReplyDeleteOutermost reaches of ChicagoLand, in any case.
Delete