Bix Beiderbecke - The Indispensable
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Artist: Bix BeiderbeckeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-02-28
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- I Didn't Know
- Idolizing
- Sunday
- I'm Proud Of A Baby Like You
- I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover
- I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
- Hoosier Sweetheart
- My Pretty Girl
- Slow River
- In My Merry Oldsmobile
- Clementine (From New Orleans)
- Washboard Blues
- Changes
- Mary
- Lonely Melody
- San
- Back In Your Own Backyard
- There Ain't No Sweet Man That Worth The Salt Of My Tears
- Dardanella
- From Monday On
- Mississippi Mud
- Sugar
- Coquette
- When
- Lovable
- My Pet
- Forget Me Not
- Louisiana
- You Took Advantage Of Me
- Rockin' Chair
- Barnacle Bill The Sailor
- Deep Down South - Bix Beiderbecke And His Orchestra
- I Don't Mind Walking In The Rain - Bix Beiderbecke And His Orchestra
- I'll Be A Friend With Pleasure - Bix Beiderbecke And His Orchestra
- Georgia On My Mind
- Bessie Couldn't Help It
Free Music Notes for The Indispensable
Free Music Review: Terrible product.
Hit: 1 Stars
This is one of the worst reissues I have ever heard. The music is fabulous, but the sound quality is so poor you can barely hear any of it! Most or all of it seems to be taken from previous reissues, some with reverb, some with distortion or excess noise. The poor sound distracts me from hearing Bix -- a shame! Don't waste your money here.
The Indispensable Poster
On this two-disc set of his recordings for RCA Victor, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke figures largely as a sideman in the orchestras of Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman. Despite that, this covers one of the most important chapters in American music in the 1920s, chronicling not only Beiderbecke's career, but also the gradual spread of jazz into the more popular bands of the day. Although he was primarily a classical pianist, Goldkette staffed his band with gifted jazz players, including saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer, clarinetist Jimmy Dorsey, trombonist Tommy Dorsey, violinist Joe Venuti, and guitarist Eddie Lang, as well as Beiderbecke.The first track here comes from Beiderbecke's brief stay with Goldkette in 1924, a job that quickly ended over the cornetist's inability to read music. His second period with Goldkette began in 1926, and the band's jazz qualities are abundantly clear on tracks like "Proud of a Baby Like You" and "Clementine." When Goldkette's band was breaking up in 1927, Paul Whiteman hired the nucleus of the group, immediately acquiring some jazz credibility in the process. The first of Beiderbecke's appearances with Whiteman is on "Washboard Blues," written and sung by his friend Hoagy Carmichael, and it's with Carmichael's 1930 group that Beiderbecke makes his final appearances here, adding his horn to songs like "Rockin' Chair" and "Georgia on My Mind." There are also three tracks from 1930 under Beiderbecke's own leadership, and both the Carmichael and Beiderbecke tracks benefit from members of the same tight-knit group that had been with Goldkette four years earlier. --Stuart Broomer
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