Royal Garden Blues -- Bix Beiderbecke 1927

Royal Garden Blues -- Bix Beiderbecke 1927
On October 5 1927 Bix Beiderbecke recorded one of the most important jazz recordings in its history. Royal Garden Blues with his New Orleans Lucky Seven sometimes known as his Gang. Bix had some superb musicians in his band: Bill Rank on trombone, Don Murray on clarinet, Adrian Rollini on bass sax, Frank Signorelli on piano and Chauncey Moorehouse on drums.
Through the decades this recording has been a sample of how jazz can be played and has influenced many of the great white jazz musicians like Bobby Hackett, Jimmy McPartland soon after and today more the likes of Tom Pletcher, Bent Persson and certainly Hans Carling and his New Coling Orchestra.
The most amazing rendition of this tune is being played in 1984 by Hans Carling together with his band and his young musical family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xKu8v9j1g

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[ABrandsma]

Everybody is talking about Bix. In a way that is Ok, but why is almost everyone forgetting Rollini??? Nobody in Jazz till at least 1940 (Blanton with Ellington) played such inventive, original and at the same time grooving bass lines! It is no surprise that Bix played at his best while with him.

Even Winton Marsalis is unfair when he stated that Bix was so lonely since he never could play with musicians of his own calibre. Really unfair to Adrian! I called my son after him to make up!

[erwigfilms]

Hallo Bert,

I totally agree with you, Bix and Adrian R. were the main players in that band. I'm so glad you realize that as well. Your son Adrian will probably become a great player as well with such talented parents. Good luck, I'm so glad we met two years ago.

Bob

[walterleipzig]

A critic recently described Marsalis as the perfect Reagan-era jazz musician - need I say more?

[marvalhat13]

I agree with you about the Burn's docu. and W. Marsalis! If it ain't black, it ain't jazz(?)

RIP Bill Rank and Don Murray.

[superfasulo]

@ABrandsma Estoy de acuerdo contigo con el comentario sobre el saxo bajo Adrian Rollini, un gran músico como pocos.

I agree with you about bass saxophone Adrian Rollini, a great musician as few were

[FlierFrank172]

I'm glad to see there is a number by the Carlings from Sweden with Gunhild Carling on Tbone. They're exceptional.

[gerrypepper]

this is perfection

[BuckshotLaFunke1]

Hoowee, such mean chords in the intro alone.

[santopec]

@ABrandsma Agree, you can say the same about Murray and Rank IMO.

[Easleytee]

This is what joy sounds like when transposed through a horn.

Glorious music.

[up2space]

@ChristopherBix2 well you've had a whole year to respond. but in any case, i'll take your word for it. bix was a neglected person, there's no doubt about it. and when your in that position, the world beats you to death. people take advantage when someone is a boozer, etc, and someone who lives uncautiously like bix may have. he was a young kid. he deserved better. how does the family regard him now?

[ChristopherBix2]

@up2space Can't speak for GennettRecords, but I AM a family member. And I'd caution you not to believe something as holy writ simply because some author saw fit to put it in a book (and then because of it's pathos, it's repeated ad nauseum by anyone who knows enough to be dangerous about Bix.) The records story was told to an author by a neighbor of Bix's that clearly had a grudge against Bix and the family for some reason and who was likely never in their home after age 8 or so.

[charlosity]

@walterleipzig A friend noted that of all the dominant musicians for each decade of jazz, e.g., Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Davis, etc, Wynton (the 90s) is the only one that did not affect the course of music. He just sold records and won awards.