Remembering Bix
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 428pp. from front flap: "Hoagy Carmichael said that once you heard Bix Beiderbecke blow four notes on his horn, your life would never be the same. Bix has always inspired that kind of rhetoric, and the cliche "a legend in his own time" was only the exact truth about him. A petted musical prodigy at seven, at twenty-one Bix, with barely two years of professional work, was considered one of the most brilliant cornetists in the world by fans and fellow musicians. And he left a permanent imprint on the art--he was the first "cool" jazzman years before the word existed. The question is, how did Bix, shy, quiet, a child of conservative small-town America, rise to the pinnacle of the jazz world--and from thence slide to the shabby furnished flat where he died of gin and general indifference at twenty-eight?" Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight / DJ G: chipping and edge wear, clipped, age toning. Item #2021
ISBN: 0060103043
#02083.
Price: $9.00