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  • Outstanding video montage, really evocative and informative.

  • Preciosa . .......  César

  • Wonderful pictures!

  • Bix may have been only 28 when he died, but at 0:55 we can see he was a dirty old man!

  • RIP BIX!!!!!

  • wonderful music for the ages

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  • Fabulous! I love it!

    RagJazzMonkey Tom

  • In those days, these albums were sold under the name of FoxTrot.

  • Es una grabación muy bella, y que gran solo el de Bix.

    Gracias por compartirla.

  • my dad turned me on to bix when i was 6 never looked back.thanks for the music

  • If you like Bix, check out what modern people like you and me are doing nowadays, with little more than a keyboard.

  • @rob2nelson1 Everything is acoustic, electric, and either guitar or computerized gibberish, never spend 5 or 10 years working to perfect an instrument. Just turn on some electric gizmo, set the dials you want, and what ho! You are a master musician! couple hundred bucks and some silly looking clown clothes will get you there!

  • As always, when Bix comes in @ 1:30, it takes the tune to another level....

  • 0:48 and the world's first Catgirls!

  • 0:39 it's the world's first Playboy Bunny!

  • So nice!

    I always liked Krazy Kat the character, too. Never knew there was a song named for him/her.

    I forget which it was, but I'd guess Kat's a "she." "Ignatz" is a boy's name and same-gender romances were taboo in comics back then.

  • @KutWrite Krazy Kat was referred to as both genders throughout the series. Krazy him/herself also kept the reader guessing in many self references. Part of the charm I think. Offisa Pup always seemed to be protective of Krazy, while Ignatz could care less, so long as he could plant that brick squarely across that 'bean.'

    Much has been written about Krazy's gender. All of it consistently inconclusive! If nothing else, the whole series is truly is a great work of Art, I say. Bix too!

  • hi lisa, great name, one that i chose for my daughter, was fortunate enough to catch joe venuti when he was appearing at bourbon street night club in toronto when joe was in his early 80's. what a fantasticplayer, one set he played was all romainian and gypsy classics, he could bring tears to your eyes, itried to imagine him and bix to-getheri sure would like to have lived in those times.....oh well, i'm thankful for what i have, great videos and pictures, best regards al.

  • Wow! wish I'd seen Venuti when he was still performing - what a great story, thanks! When I think of all the amazing jazz pioneers I could have seen live in the 1960's

    and '70's (and didn't) it makes me crazy ... aarrrggghhh!

  • Great Recording of Krazy Kat....! How did they clean all those defects and scratches ..?

  • Ask Atticus70 - he provided the wonderful recording!

  • @MookRyan ...TY will do

  • @pinkieldred They start out with the metal mother from which the 78s were made. It is still in existence.

  • They use a program like GoldTone, to filter out the surface noise (caused by skin acid on playing surface, esp. on edges, playing surface not being mirror smooth before pressing, and mishandling). The signal wave of needle scratch differs from that of the actual groove wiggle. GoldTone or whatever would block that during the copying.

  • I had this on a UK album from EMI/PARLOPHONE - It was Beidebecke & Frankie Trumbauer - entitled "BIX AND TRAM" - It also featured the duo VENUTI & LANG on this cut, I believe.

    Gawd, I wish I had that album still!

    Thanx fer this, m8...

  • awesome solo by by Bix

  • My dear friends, I stumbled across my mother's collection of her favorite recordings one day when I was about 8. I discovered them along with an old electric 78 rmp record player in the house that one summer. Among the recordings was a few Bix recordings. I played those and still enjoy the wonderful sounds of that music. I am now making CD's of them to play at home.

    Mom, because of her musical talent and her father's friends, was familiar with most musicians of those days. She was 13 in 1923.

  • It always nice to hear of someone who appreciates the music of Bix. My uncle, Tom Gibson, played clarinet with Whiteman while he was a student at Cornell in the late 20's. One day he played some Bix for me and it was the beginning of a life time love affair with his music. He also introduced me to Hoagy Carmichael: Carmichael played the piano and my uncle played his clarinet.

    Thanks for your postings: just great.

  • Mook!

    Another great video you've gotten us into!!

    You are so talented and all of us are so blessed by your talents. You're one Krazy Kat!

    Thanks for this gem and keep 'em coming!

  • I 2nd that. You are a real artiste. Fantastic video I enjoyed.

  • Fabulous! and I love the photo of you - looks just like you!

  • WHAT photo of me??

  • The photo is you is at 00:32, Silly!!

  • Superb! What a talent! You should make a Bix movie!

  • Marvelous video presentation of a superb disc. Especially glad to see the shots of the great Bill Rank. ... And Bix ...

  • Heh, heh, cute! Love the colorized pic of Bix!

  • NICE!

  • Mook - You never disappoint. Great stuff, as always.

  • Great video....you are an artiste! Love this tune.

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