BIX BEIDERBECKE - FLASHES

[Vastad]

Beautiful montage.

My friend introduced it to me. She told me it was her "End of Summer, Beginning of Fall" song.

We were sitting with our cafe mochas in the Nordic Bakery just off Golden Square in Soho, London. We indulged in people watching as they passed by the big window in the wet blustery day outside. Our tummies warm with cocoa and caffeine and the smell of cinnamon rolls. She was right, that really captured the moment.

[ChristopherBix2]

Lisa, Ken Burns has nothing on you. Great work on all the vids. Thanks.

[neubyneubyneuby]

Thanks for uploading this and all of the Bix stuff. As someone who spent his first 25 years on this planet in Davenport and is an active traditional jazz musician I really, really appreciate it. It hits home...in more than just one way =D

[BessWhildin]

Splendid. This duet is new to me, so beautiful. Thank you so much.

[ElizabethBix]

Thanks, Mook.

[ElizabethBix]

Thanks, Mook, and Happy Birthday Wishes to Bix.....forever young, forever in our hearts.

[jrpitcherjr]

Bix had a haunting, poignant,unique style of composing music especially suited to the piano. The great tragedy of his short life is compounded by the loss to the music world of other compositions that would have been published, no doubt, had he lived a normal life span. We are grateful for what he has left us. Bernard Lhotzky's rendition of "Flashes" and Dick Hyman's of "In the Dark" would have pleased Bix.

[goldenoldiesPete]

Beautiful and wonderful pictures, truly priceless. Thanks for posting and thanks to GeminiNIghtOwl for sharing. 5/5.

[GeminiNightOwl]

Same here - I really love all these pics of Bix - never saw them before either. Amazing videos - thanks so much for sharing them with us :)

[cholocharile]

Whoa, where'd you get all of those cool pictures of Bix when he was young? I've never seen any of them before.

[MookRyan]

You can find them in the various biographies of Bix, including:

"Bix - The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story" - by Philip & Linda Evans, "Bix: The Davenport Album" - by Rich Johnson, with Jim Arpy and Gerri Bowers, "Bix - Man & Legend" - by Sudhalter & Evans, and "Bix - The Definitive Biography Of A Jazz Legend" - by Jean Pierre Lion.

[Cubachik]

That was lovely. Thanks so much.

[stlgtrace]

Absolutely wonderful! I need to find the sheet music for this hauntingly beautiful piece!

[pinkieldred]

Beautifully put together ! There's something haunting about Bix...perhaps because we really know so little about him...sure we have books and research but we also know how that can all get lost in the ages in some respects ..we can't help wonder what he was really like! thanks for this contribution...what an awesome talent. Now were listening to rap and shit hop..does that tell you anything about our music appreciation ? I often think were going backwards in musical culture

[alkuhn1]

Dear MookRyan: Just wonderful. One of the more interesting thins about your videos is that you can recognize Bix at any age. Most of us change but with Bix, if you saw a pictiure of hiim as an infant, you would recognize him in Whiteman's band. Uncanny. What a service you dofor everyone who loves Bix! alkuhn1

[Nealsiegal]

Ms Ryan: This sure is one beautiful and touching montage you've put together. The composition is especially the revelation to me. I started listening to Bix five or six years ago; I thought I was getting to know his stuff pretty well (the hot stuff). But I admit now that I might have prematurely poo pooed his classical work (is that what you'd call it?). Well, thanks for framing this one so perfectly that it's drawing me to go back with new and more open ears.

[CaseyMacB4T]

You've captured the feeling; superb construction, timing, choices of images. I especially like the last shot with the riverboat, and the gradual panning toward the clouds...

Thanks!

[Pete68fromLondon]

@victorcornet21

Many thanks!

This point has been troubling me for decades!

Peter

[Pete68fromLondon]

Every picture I've ever seen of Bix shows him playing or holding what looked like a trumpet, although he was he supposed to play the cornet - does anyone know whether he used a cornet wound as a trumpet, or did he actually play a trumpet?

[victorcornet21]

Bix played cornet. Most of the photos in which he has a horn, he is holding a Conn Victor 80 A. It was a "long cornet," sort of a cornet/trumpet hybrid developed by C.G. Conn around 1914. It has the mellow sound of the cornet, but with the projection of a trumpet. It is still considered a cornet though it is longer than the traditional cornet, and a couple of inches shorter than the average trumpet. Cornets have conical bore tubing, whereas a trumpet's is cylindrical.

[leftyodoul]

beautifully done!

[Cristian1929]

Thanks! For share this Flashes with fine taste on images... and thaks a lot to Bix for his unforgetteable music... BIX Lives!!!

[bill291212]

in my heart, for sure

[Riverrrun1]

Bix lives ... on and on in our hearts.

[fabianopellini]

congratulation

[gasness1]

absolutely gorgeous

[conticris]

This id the most touching of your tributes to Bix. God bless you!

[mmay519]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I have viewed it many, many times, and I can't get enough of it!

Where can one get the CD of this recording?

[MookRyan]

Thanks!

The recording of Flashes is on the "Tandem"

piano duet album by Bernd Lhotzky and Chris Hopkins -

you can get it on iTunes and other music download sites.

[everybodylovesmybaby]

I can't help but think about what we lost when this young man passed away so early in his life. This is an authentic tragedy.

[rabbitfoot007]

Thanks once again-this piece of music has given me a whole new lease on life!

Bernd Lhotzky is extraordinary. So glad to get turned on to him.

Are you a musician too???

[ronpolla]

Gorgeous tribute to one of the biggest geniuses of the 20th century.

Thank you.

[jazzgirl1920s]

Nice recording of Flashes I hadn't heard before and a very good tribute video with images pertinent to Bix and presented in a professional manner. Congratulations. This is one of the best videos I have seen on youtube and I have a Bix discussion group on Yahoo and I am going to mention this great video and provide a link to it. All appreciators of Bix's music should see this!

[lonkelly]

Very creative video, sensitive to the history and music, with a beautiful audio track I hadn't heard before.

[melville445]

Touching, profound, heartbreaking. What a wonderful video. Thanks, Lisa.

[ElizabethBix]

This video is so spectacular that I can't stop watching it. Thanks, Lisa, for a beautiful tribute to Bix.

[MookRyan]

I can't tell you how much your comments mean to me - thanks sooooo much!

[jonmathis]

beautiful!

[santopec]

Well done again!!

[victorcornet21]

Gorgeous job, Lisa!