Felix the Cat

Bix Beiderbecke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 18, 1996)
• Original Release Date: May 13, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Epm Musique
• ASIN: B000001N3N
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,015,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jazz Me Blues

2. Copenhagen

3. Royal Garden Blues

4. Tiger Rag

5. Davenport Blues

6. Idolizing [Take 2]

7. Proud of a Baby Like You [Take 4]

8. Clarinet Marmalade

9. Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home)

10. I'm Coming Virginia

11. Blue River

12. In a Mist

13. Wringin' and Twistin'

14. Washboard Blues

15. Mississippi Mud

16. From Monday On [Take 6]

17. Sugar [Take 2]

18. You Took Advantage of Me

19. Felix the Cat

20. Take Your Tomorrow

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great sampling of Bix's music, January 7, 2003

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"Gimpy" Peach Johnson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Felix the Cat (Audio CD)

In my opinion, this disc offers one of the best overviews of Bix Beiderbecke's career on one disc. If you only buy one Bix CD, this is a good one to get. It features several of his earliest recordings with the Wolverine Orchestra, some of his small-group sessions under the title of "Bix's Rhythm Jugglers," many of his finest "big-band" sides with Jean Goldkette, Paul Whiteman, and Frankie Trumbauer, along with the last sides he ever recorded in 1930 with Hoagy Carmichael. This disc also contains his famous piano solo "In A Mist." It's extremely difficult to boil all of Bix's recordings down to a "best of" CD since so many of his records were outstanding, but the folks at Jazz Archives in France have done a nice job in selecting the tunes for this set. The sound quality, while not as good as the famous "Bix Restored" series, is quite acceptable. Listening to the disc, I suspect that most of the tracks were dubbed from previous LP reissues of these titles, but still, the listening's good.

If you just want one or two discs of Bix Beiderbecke, this is a good one to get, and I'd also recommend the two Columbia discs currently available. If you're more serious about building your jazz CD collection and have a little money to spare and want more Bix, I'd recommend the "Bix Restored" series with excellent transfers by John R. T. Davies.