Great Original Performances: 1924-1930

Bix Beiderbecke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Louisiana Red Hot
• ASIN: B000003A29
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,452 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. At the Jazz Band Ball

2. Copenhagen

3. Clarinet Marmalade

4. Royal Garden Blues

5. Ostrich Walk

6. Riverboat Shuffle

7. Goose Pimples

8. I'm Coming Virginia

9. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

10. Cryin' All Day

11. There'll Come a Time

12. Sorry

13. Mississippi Mud

14. Wa-Da-Da (Everybody's Doin' It Now)

15. Take Your Tomorrow

16. Rhythm King

17. Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down

18. Rockin' Chair

19. Barnacle Bill, The Sailor

20. Deep Harlem

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The real Bix, July 19, 2002

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bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Original Performances: 1924-1930 (Audio CD)

I used to wonder why Bix Beiderbecke was so highly rated. Robert Parker's remastering of these sides makes Beiderbecke's beautiful melodic thinking evident and even resurrects his celebrated bell-like tone. This is the most vivid Bix I've heard.
Along with the small band recordings (cornet, trombone, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano & drums) built around Bix, this selection includes performances by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (with some crooners including Bing Crosby)and Frankie Trumbauer's band (the c-melody sax player Lester Young based his style on). These may be considered "novelty numbers" by many but they tell us a lot about the musical background against which the great jazz music of the era developed.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bix Best, April 5, 2001

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Conrad Geiger (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Original Performances: 1924-1930 (Audio CD)

Wow! If you are to going own just one Bix Beiderbecke CD, this IS the one. On listening to it, I felt transported back in time to the studio where Bix and bands made the recordings. The sound quality is unmatched in any recording that I have heard made in the last 40 years. (NOTE: these are Bix classics from 70+ years ago!) This CD is a true combination of music art from Bix Beiderbecke plus amazing stereo & acoustical magic from Robert Parker! What more can I say?

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What an incredible restoration!, April 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Great Original Performances: 1924-1930 (Audio CD)

Why, oh why, aren't more early recordings restored with this much skill and love?

If you're trying to chose a Bix recording, well, here you go. This one will spoil you for sure. I also bought the CD "Singin' the Blues" and wish I hadn't wasted the money on it. Bix is represented musically much better here and the restoration is superb.

I prefer the purely instrumental tracks to those with vocals. On this CD there are a four or five vocal tracks, but they're brief (and a couple of them are oddly sung--in my opinion).