Bix Beiderbecke Story [Import]

Bix Beiderbecke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Import
• Label: Proper Box UK
• ASIN: B0000DZH5C
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,577 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Disc 1 (Singin The Blues)

2. Fidgety Feet

3. Jazz Me Blues

4. Oh Baby

5. Copehagen

6. Riverboat Shuffle

7. Susie

8. I Need Some Pettin

9. Royal Garden Blues

10. Tiger Rag

11. Sensation

12. Lazy Daddy

13. Tia Juana

14. Big Boy

15. Flock O Blues

16. Im Glad

17. I Didnt Know

18. Toddlin Blue

19. Davenport Blues

20. Idolizing

See all 99 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

UK exclusive box-set highlights the career of one of the early heroes of jazz. This four disc set features nearly every important recording he made. Includes 56 page illustrated booklet. Standard jewelcases housed in a slipcase. Proper. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Legend In His Short Lifetime, July 29, 2007

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Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bix Beiderbecke Story (Audio CD)

I'm trying in my reviews to tread the roads less travelled, but it would be remiss of me to pass over this 4-CD set, particularly when one of the two reviews it has attracted to date has awarded it but a single star!

If you've never heard a recording by Bix you don't know what you've missed, and if you have you'll never forget it. He was unsurpassed for purity of tone, and his skill transcended mere improvisation, transmuting the most uninspired tunes into melodies of great beauty, seemingly without effort.

This compilation covers his first recordings with the Wolverines, the Sioux City Six, and the Rhythm Jugglers, the best of his recordings with Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman, interpolated by those made by studio groups under his own and Frank Trumbauer's name, the two Broadway Bellhops sides, and finishing up with the two Hoagy Carmichael sides.

This was a musician who claimed never to play the same solo twice, but the one thing that's missing is an alternate take or two (and there are many) to show the extent to which Bix's solos altered dramatically from one to the next. But that's a small reservation which does not detract from the impact of the set as a whole.

Individual discs are housed in slipcases, and are accompanied by an extremely detailed 56-page booklet setting out his career and full discographical details. An absolute bargain.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Inconsistent sound, over-filtered tracks, good booklet., February 27, 2005

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Ted Ison (East Coast USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bix Beiderbecke Story (Audio CD)

This budget set seems to be made up largely (or entirely) of material lifted from earlier reissues. I think many of the 'newly remastered' recordings are simply filtered versions of other recordings I already have in my collection. In general, the sound is bland, mid-rangy, over-filtered and lifeless. There is SOOOOO much more sound on these recordings than this release lets us hear. The material itself is great -- basically the Bix everyone wants! The booklet is superb. But sorry -- I can't get around the inferior sound. You get what you pay for.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Value, October 7, 2006

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Michael F. Freer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bix Beiderbecke Story (Audio CD)

This is exceptional value - a 4 CD collection with a 56 page illustrated booklet. The re-mastered recordings are comparable to any in my extensive collection of Bix's work. If I were to criticise it would be the cardboard covers to the CDs but at this price I am not going to knock a star off.