Jazz Me Blues [Import]

Bix Beiderbecke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 17, 1995)
• Original Release Date: July 26, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: A Jazz Hour With
• ASIN: B000003DG4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #902,491 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trumbology

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

3. Ostrich Walk

4. Riverboat Shuffle

5. For No Reason at All in C

6. I'm Coming Virginia

7. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

8. In a Mist

9. Clementine (From New Orleans)

10. Jazz Me Blues

11. At the Jazz Band Ball

12. Royal Garden Blues

13. Goose Pimples

14. Sorry

15. Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down

16. There'll Come a Time

17. Mississippi Mud

18. Thou Swell

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

20. Ol' Man River

Editorial Reviews

Twenty tracks from 1927-28 that feature Bix with Jimmy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, Red Ingle, Adrian Rollini, Doc Ryker, Lloyd Tuner, Fuzzy Ferrar, and many more as they do Trumbology; Singin' the Blues; Ostrich Walk; Riverboat Shuffle; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; Clementine; At the Jazz Band Ball; Goose Pimples; Since My Best Girl Turned Me Down; Mississippi Mud; Ol' Man River; Jazz Me Blues , and more. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Compilation of Bix Recordings, January 29, 2002

By 

Tom Moran (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jazz Me Blues (Audio CD)

Bix Beiderbecke was arguably the greatest white jazz musician of the 1920s, and was to a generation of jazz buffs what James Dean was to movie fans of the 1950s. Bix lived fast, died young (at 28), and left us with a beautiful body of work, most of the best of which is collected on this CD.

There are lots of Bix Beiderbecke anthologies on compact disc, but this one might be the best one to start out with. As a one-disc compilation of the best of Bix, this CD is about as good as it gets. Start out with Singin' the Blues, arguably the best example of Bix's uniquely lyrical tone on the Bb cornet, a tone that reminded Eddie Condon of "a girl saying yes." Then go to At the Jazz Band Ball, that showcases Bix in his rip 'em up mode. If you're not hooked on Bix by the end of those two tracks, forget it. You're hopeless.

If you respond to what you hear, then you might want to go on to further Bix CD purchases (I like Columbia/Sony's two-disc set, which contains more esoteric tracks than you'll find here). But this is probably the best starter kit for the Bix initiate. If you're just discovering the legacy of Bix Beiderbecke, I envy you. You've got a lot of pleasure in store.