Remembering Bix: A Memoir Of The Jazz Age
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306809370 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorRalph Berton (1910–1993) wrote extensively on jazz, serving as an editor at Metronome and Down Beat magazines and as editor-in-chief of Sound and Fury. He was also a professor of jazz history at Cooper Union, Middlesex County College, and Bloomfield College.
He was also a professor of jazz history at Cooper Union, Middlesex County College, and Bloomfield College.. Ralph Berton (1910–1993) wrote extensively on jazz, serving as an editor at Metronome and Down Beat magazines and as editor-in-chief of Sound and Fury
Listening from 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.. 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—just as Beiderbecke's genius was flowering, before he died in 1931 at age twenty-eight
Brendan M. Wolfe said A fond homage and intelligent memoir. As author Ralph Berton points out at the beginning of this nicely written memoir, the name Bix Beiderbecke has, over the years, drawn irritating and overblown rhetoric. Truth is, I expected no different from this volume on the great jazz cornetist of the 19"A fond homage and intelligent memoir" according to Brendan M. Wolfe. As author Ralph Berton points out at the beginning of this nicely written memoir, the name Bix Beiderbecke has, over the years, drawn irritating and overblown rhetoric. Truth is, I expected no different from this volume on the great jazz cornetist of the 1920s, so I was pleasantly surprised.Berton's older brother played drums with Beiderbecke, giving the author a fascinating inside glimpse on the self-taught, self-destructive musical genius. Beiderbecke is a househo. 0s, so I was pleasantly surprised.Berton's older brother played drums with Beiderbecke, giving the author a fascinating inside glimpse on the self-taught, self-destructive musical genius. Beiderbecke is a househo. Take with a grain of salt (and a slug of gin) Laura M. Toops This book is essentially everything you wanted to know about the career, family and sex life of Ralph Berton -- oh, and then there's that guy Beiderbecke who keeps hanging around him.Actually, it's not a bad evocation of a frantic era and how it ended. Berton paints some great word pictures of what it must have been like to travel with the Wolverines and party with a still young-and-healthy Bix. The skeptical or more serious reader, however, may speculate on exactly. Great Book I read this book a long time ago, and consider it one of the best I've ever read. Maybe it's not absolutely historically accurate (it's not supposed to be), but it evokes for me an era long before I existed, and the spirit of what those times must have been like. There are at least two other books out there that are historically researched and accurate, but leave the emotion out. You need to read them together to get the true picture.Does anyone know anything more a