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Author Wolfe, Brendan, 1971-

Title Finding Bix : the life and afterlife of a jazz legend / Brendan Wolfe
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2017]

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Summary "Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to (3z (Bcool (3y (Bjazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in 1931 at the age of twenty-eight. It was this meteoric rise and fall, combined with the searing originality of his playing and the mystery of his character (who was Bix?--not even his friends or family seemed to know) that inspired subsequent generations to imitate him, worship him, and write about him. It also provoked Brendan Wolfe's Finding Bix a personal and often surprising attempt to connect music, history, and legend"--Amazon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931.
SUBJECT Beiderbecke, Bix, 1903-1931 fast
Subject Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Woodwinds.
MUSIC -- General.
Jazz musicians
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016040306
ISBN 9781609385071
1609385071