Bix Beiderbecke - I'm Wondering Who (1927)

Leon Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.

One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism. Critic Scott Yanow describes Beiderbecke as the "[p]ossessor of a beautiful, distinctive tone and a strikingly original improvising style. Beiderbecke's chief competitor among cornetists in the '20s was Louis Armstrong, but (due to their different sounds and styles) one really could not compare them.

Beiderbecke was one of the great musicians of the 1920s. Beiderbecke first recorded with his band the Wolverine Orchestra in 1924. They were usually called the Wolverines, named for "Wolverine Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton because they played it so often. He became a sought-after musician in Chicago and New York City. He made innovative and influential recordings with Frankie Trumbauer ("Tram") and the Jean Goldkette Orchestra. When the Goldkette Orchestra disbanded after their last recording ("Clementine (From New Orleans)"), in September 1927, Bix and Trumbauer, a 'C' melody and alto saxophone player, briefly joined Adrian Rollini's band at the Club New Yorker, New York. Beiderbecke then moved on to the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, the most popular and highest paid band of the day.


Bix Beiderbecke - I'm Wonderin' Who (1927)

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[bostonblakie]

Always a pleasure listening to Bix.

[cwarchc]

an underrated artist here

[sokolseret]

Great. Bix, Shalom from Israel.

[wildsterlingbill]

Bix is an all-time great and so frustrating, wasting so much of his talent as he did. 

[ThatsaCryinShame]

wake up bixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­xxxxxxx

[progjazzfusion]

@costernocht - yeah no kidding, because hardrock+(c)rap music are not about beauty and sweetness, are they. that's the point of them. one is for angry white guys, the other is for angry black guys.

[costernocht]

There's more beauty and sweetness in this two-and-a-half minute song than in the entire body of hip-hop, rap, and headbanging rock 'n' roll.

[maldoror1901]

thanks a lot!!! i have been wandering this cuestion of the diction a lot of time!!!

[fromthesidelines]

This was actually a Frank Trumbauer ensemble (released in the U.S. under Benny Meroff's name on Okeh, and as "Frankie Trumbauer's Augmented Orchestra" on Parlophone in Great Britain), featuring Bix, Bill Rank (tb), Don Murray (cl), Bobby Davis (as), Adrian Rollini (bsx), Joe Venuti (v), Eddie Lang (g), Frank Signorelli (p) and Chauncey Morehouse (d), recorded on September 30, 1927.

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