However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation finally failed him: " He stood up to take his solo, but his mind went blank and nothing happened ," recalled a fellow musician, Frankie Cush.

Beiderbecke's most famous solo was on " Singin ' the Blues ", recorded February 4, 1927.

" Richard Hadlock describes Beiderbecke's contribution to " Jazz Me Blues " as " an ordered solo that seems more inspired by clarinetists Larry Shields of the ODJB and Leon Roppolo of the NORK than by other trumpet players.

The Whiteman period also marked a precipitous decline in Beiderbecke's health, brought on by the demand of the bandleader's relentless touring and recording schedule in combination with Beiderbecke's persistent alcoholism.

Beiderbecke's childhood home at Leon Bismark Beiderbecke House | 1934 Grand Avenue in Davenport, Iowa, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lane's piano suites and orchestral arrangements were both self-consciously American and influenced by the French Impressionists, and it is said to have greatly influenced Beiderbecke's style, especially on " In a Mist.

For instance, on February 4, 1927, Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra recorded " Trumbology ", " Clarinet Marmalade ", and " Singin ' the Blues ", all three of which featured some of Beiderbecke's best work.

In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier, Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural conservatism in a nation on the cusp of the rock and roll revolution.

In 1971, on the 40th anniversary of Beiderbecke's death, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival was founded in Davenport, Iowa, to honor the musician.

That same year, Frederick Turner published his novel 1929, which followed the facts of Beiderbecke's life fairly closely, focusing on his summer in Hollywood and featuring appearances by Al Capone and Clara Bow.

The critic and musician Digby Fairweather sums up Beiderbecke's musical legacy, arguing that " with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke was the most striking of jazz's cornet ( and of course, trumpet ) fathers ; a player who first captivated his 1920s generation and after his premature death, founded a dynasty of distinguished followers beginning with Jimmy McPartland and moving on down from there.

Gioia further wonders whether the many hyperbolic and quasi-poetic descriptions of Beiderbecke ’ s style — most notably Condon's " like a girl saying yes "— may indicate that Beiderbecke's sound was muddled on recordings.

Some critics have highlighted " Jazz Me Blues ," recorded with the Wolverines on February 18, 1924, as being particularly important to understanding Beiderbecke's style.

Carmichael appeared as an actor in a total of 14 motion pictures, always performing at least one of his songs, including Young Man with a Horn ( based on friend Bix Beiderbecke's life ) with Bacall and Kirk Douglas, and multi-Academy Award winner The Best Years of Our Lives with Myrna Loy and Fredric March ), in which he teaches a disabled veteran with metal prostheses to play " Chop Sticks ".

These pieces had an influence on jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke's piano compositions.

The notice appeared in October 1931 and began with a bit of hyperbole and an incorrect fact, two hallmarks of much of the subsequent writing about Beiderbecke: " The announcement of Bix Beiderbecke's death plunged all jazz musicians into despair.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Beiderbecke's music continues to reside mostly out of the mainstream and some of the facts of his life are still debated, but scholars largely agree — due in part to the influence of Sudhalter and Evans — that he was an important innovator in early jazz ; jazz cornetists, including Sudhalter ( before his death in 2008 ), and Tom Pletcher, closely emulate his style.

Like Green, who made particular mention of Beiderbecke's " amount of teaching ," the jazz historian Ted Gioia also has emphasized Beiderbecke's lack of formal instruction, suggesting that it caused him to adopt " an unusual, dry embouchure " and " unconventional fingerings ," which he retained for the rest of his life.

This time, Kapp was out of town and Norvo went ahead and recorded two of the earliest, most modern pieces of chamber jazz yet recorded: Bix Beiderbecke's " In a Mist " and Norvo's own " Dance of the Octopus ".

This whole-tone scale has appeared occasionally and sporadically in jazz at least since Bix Beiderbecke's impressionistic piano piece In a Mist.

Beiderbecke's style was very different from that of Louis Armstrong according to The Oxford Companion to Jazz:

Until recently, biographers have largely ignored this incident in Beiderbecke's life, and Lion was the first, in 2005, to print the police blotter and affidavit associated with the arrest.

Beiderbecke's most influential recordings date from his time with Goldkette and Whiteman, although they were generally recorded under his own name or Trumbauer's.

A few stints in rehabilitation centers, as well as the support of Whiteman and the Beiderbecke family in Davenport, did not check Beiderbecke's decline in health.

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

Beiderbecke's mother was the daughter of a Mississippi riverboat captain.

Beiderbecke's parents enrolled him in the exclusive Lake Forest Academy, north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois.

The headmaster informed Beiderbecke's parents by letter that following his expulsion school officials confirmed that Beiderbecke " was drinking himself and was responsible, in part at least, in having liquor brought into the School.

Paul Mares of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings insisted that Beiderbecke's chief influence was the New Orleans cornetist Emmett Hardy, who died in 1925 at the age of 23.

Beiderbecke apparently spent time with them, but the degree to which Hardy's style influenced Beiderbecke's is difficult to know because Hardy never recorded.

In some respects, Beiderbecke's playing was sui generis, but he nevertheless listened to and studied the music around him: from Armstrong and Joe " King " Oliver to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

On January 26, 1925, Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers set two tunes to wax: " Toddlin ' Blues ," another number by LaRocca and Shields, and Beiderbecke's own composition, " Davenport Blues.

" They were inseparable for much of the rest of Beiderbecke's career, with Trumbauer acting as a father figure to Beiderbecke.

There he also played alongside the clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, who praised Beiderbecke's ability to drive the band.

Although the band recorded numerous sides for Victor during this period, none of them showcases Beiderbecke's most famous solos.

For Beiderbecke, the downside of being with Whiteman was the relentless touring and recording schedule, exacerbated by Beiderbecke's alcoholism.

On November 30, 1928, in Cleveland, Beiderbecke suffered what Lion terms " a severe nervous crisis " and Sudhalter and Evans suggest " was in all probability an acute attack of delirium tremens ," presumably triggered by Beiderbecke's attempt to curb his alcohol intake.

While he was away, Whiteman famously kept a chair empty in Beiderbecke's honor.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

In addition to all this, the Analog Brothers continue to make frequent appearances on each other's solo albums.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

It also included an innovative scene that would combine a series of on stage dances with singing from both solo protagonists and the chorus.

Mira Sorvino is an alumna of the Veritones of Harvard College where she had the solo on Only You by Yaz.

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

Then comes her one solo, " Liaisons ", in which her character thinks back on the art of love as a profession in a gilded age, when sex ' was but a pleasurable means to a measurable end.

The “ north-bank ” thesis of F. L. Lucas, based on his 1921 solo field-trip to Thessaly, is now, however, broadly accepted by historians.

Somerville went on to have success as lead singer of The Communards and as a solo artist.

" In 1949, still retaining his soprano, he recorded a bluesy solo rendering of Hank Snow's " My Two Timin ' Woman " on a wire recorder borrowed by a friend who worked in a music shop.

As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The " Chirping " Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.

Often musicians perform solo on the balalaika.

The Blues transitioned to the straight-wing Grumman F9F-2 Panther on 13 July 1949, wherein the F8F-1 " Beetle Bomb " was relegated to solo aerobatics before the main show, until it crashed on takeoff at a training show in Pensacola in 1950.

The concerto grosso ( a concerto for more than one musician ) began to be replaced by the solo concerto ( a concerto featuring only one soloist ), and therefore began to place more importance on the particular soloist's ability to show off.

Shortly after the record was released, Love told Kurt Loder on TRL: " I cannot exist as a solo artist.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time " which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching # 21 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

Neil Finn had decided to end the band to concentrate on his solo career and the Finn Brothers project with Tim.

Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.

It was on Hessie's Shed that Finn, Hester and Seymour last shared a stage, on an episode filmed as part of Finn's promotion for his solo album Try Whistling This in 1998.