Bix Beiderbecke News

The always intelligent Renewable Music indicates his displeasure at recorded music in general and that Stanford students no longer appreciate high-fidelity, specfically.

Since he was neither as gonzo as Lester Bangs nor as infuriatingly smarty-pants as Robert Christgau, music critic Gary Giddins never attracted the same attention as did his contemporaries in rock-writing circles.

Sunnyside and Woodside are the twins of Queens. Each has wide avenues, leafy streets and a mix of private homes, small apartment buildings and the occasional towering co-op. They are sunny and woody and ethnically rich - just check out the Romanian, Thai, Irish, Filipino and Mexican bars and restaurants.

Benny Meroff - Smiling Skies embed this "Smiling Skies", recorded by Benny Meroff and His Orchestra on December 9, 1928 in Chicago .

If you're having withdrawal symptoms post-jazz festival season then this CD by recent visitor to Scotland Dick Hyman is the solution.

Festival will showcase top jazz performers and groups by the Mississippi river. If you saw the recent film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, you heard Bixs music, a voice from the 20s that lives on today even though he died at age 28 in 1931.

ST. CHARLES – A St. Charles man, one of three radio announcers to be inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame, will serve as emcee during the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival this weekend in Davenport, Iowa.

The St. Louis Stompers once again will be one of the featured bands at the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival , which is scheduled this year for Thursday, July 23 through Sunday, July 26 in Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, Iowa.

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was one of the first great white jazz musicians, a live-fast, die-young icon of the Roaring '20s. But in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa , on the Mississippi River, the mantra is "Bix Lives." Helping to keep that flame burning for Davenport's most famous resident, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival will bring ...

Lester Young drew on Louis Armstrong, Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke and his own genius to create one of the most personal styles in music.

SOURCE: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey Sometime in the final decade of the last century I was on assignment in Portland, Oregon, and dropped into the restaurant of the elegant Heathman Hotel to hear pianist Dave Frishberg and singer Rebecca Kilgore.