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Bix Beiderbecke with Jean Goldkette's Orchestra

Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke with Jean Goldkette's Orchestra

Format: CD
Label: Retrieval
UPC: 0608917904024
Catnr: RTR 79040
Release date: 26 December 2012
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Retrieval
UPC
0608917904024
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RTR 79040
Release date
26 December 2012
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About the album

First release in 2003.
At its peak around 1928/28 the Jean Goldkette Orchestra was the finest white jazz orchestra of its time. It featured advanced and groundbreaking arrangements by Bill Challis and Don Murray, plus a raft of top soloists such as the immortal Bix Beiderbecke, Bill Rank and Steve Brown whilst the great Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang were added for several of its recordings. This CD contains all the significant records made whilst Bix was with the organisation, including such classic sides as 'Clementine' and 'My Pretty Girl'.
10th March 2003 saw the century of the birth of Bix Beiderbecke and this CD celebrates that anniversary in fine style. John R.T. Davies made the transfers and if that is not sufficient guarantee of quality, the linernotes are by Bix's biographer Richard M. (Dick) Sudhalter. Containing a generous 25 tracks, this CD is an essential buy for anyone interested in jazz history and some great music.

"..an excellent package... transfers crips and bright. All in all a first class production"
Vintage Jazz Mart

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Bix Beiderbecke

With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on 'Singin' the Blues' and 'I'm Coming, Virginia' (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. 'In a Mist' (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering some critics have connected to his original sound. He first recorded with Midwestern jazz ensembles, The Wolverines and The Bucktown Five[1][2] in 1924,...
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With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation.

A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering some critics have connected to his original sound. He first recorded with Midwestern jazz ensembles, The Wolverines and The Bucktown Five[1][2] in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra before joining Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer for an extended gig at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis. Beiderbecke and Trumbauer joined Goldkette in 1926. The band toured widely and famously played a set opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in October 1926. He made his greatest recordings in 1927 (see above). In 1928, Trumbauer and Beiderbecke left Detroit to join the best-known and most prestigious dance orchestra in the country: the New-York-based Paul WhitemanOrchestra.

Beiderbecke's most influential recordings date from his time with Goldkette and Whiteman, although they were generally recorded under his own name or Trumbauer's. The Whiteman period also marked a precipitous decline in Beiderbecke's health, brought on by the demand of the bandleader's relentless touring and recording schedule in combination with Beiderbecke's persistent alcoholism. A few stints in rehabilitation centers, as well as the support of Whiteman and the Beiderbecke family in Davenport, did not check Beiderbecke's decline in health. He left the Whiteman band in 1930 and the following summer died in his Queens apartment at the age of 28.[3]


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