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Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.
Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival.
Notable natives of the city have included jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and former National Football League running back Roger Craig.
Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.
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Leon Bismark " Bix " Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931 ) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.
There is disagreement over whether Beiderbecke was christened Leon Bismark ( and nicknamed " Bix ") or Leon Bix.
His father was nicknamed " Bix ," as, for a time, was his older brother, Charles Burnette " Burnie " Beiderbecke.
Burnie Beiderbecke claimed that the boy was named Leon Bix and subsequent biographers have reproduced birth certificates to that effect.
In a letter to his mother when he was nine years old, Beiderbecke signed off, " frome your Leon Bix Beiderbecke not Bismark Remeber ".
Bix Beiderbecke was the youngest of three children.
From these records Bix Beiderbecke first learned to love hot jazz ; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca's horn lines.
Where Armstrong emphasized showmanship and virtuosity, Beiderbecke emphasized melody, even when improvising, and — different from Armstrong and contrary to how the Bix Beiderbecke of legend would be portrayed — he rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register.
Beiderbecke earned co-writing credit with Trumbauer on " For No Reason at All in C ", recorded under the name Tram, Bix and Eddie ( in their Three Piece Band ).
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.
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.
Filmed partially in the Beiderbecke home, which Avati had purchased and renovated, Bix was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2003, to mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society and other community organizations, spearheaded by Paul Maringelli and The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee, erected a plaque in Beiderbecke's honor at the apartment building in which he died in Queens.

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It was purchased and renovated by the Italian director Pupi Avati when he filmed portions of his biopic Bix ( film ) | Bix: An Interpretation of a Legend there during the summer of 1990.
According to biographer Jean Pierre Lion, " Bix was accused of having taken this man's five-year-old daughter into a garage and committing on her an act qualified by the police report as ' lewd and lascivious.
We first believed it was a false alarm, as we had heard so often before about Bix.
` Also in 1974, Sudhalter and Evans published their biography, Bix: Man and Legend, which was nominated for a National Book Award.
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.
For the first time I realized music isn't all the same, it had become an entirely new set of sounds …" " I tried to explain Bix to the gang ," Carmichael wrote, but "… t was no good, like the telling of a vivid, personal dream … the emotion couldn't be transmitted.
Robinson composed the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag "), " Margie ", " Jazzola ", " Singin ' the Blues ( Till My Daddy Comes Home )", which was recorded by Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, and Eddie Lang, " Mary Lou ", " Pan Yan ( And His Chinese Jazz Band )", " How Many Times?
In 1977, the ODJB classic " Singin ' the Blues ", co-written by ODJB pianist J. Russel Robinson, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a landmark 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar, as Okeh 40772-B, recorded on February 4, 1927.
In 2008, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band classic " Ostrich Walk ", written by Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields, in a performance by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, was included on the soundtrack to the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The fire was started by three Gypsies, William Flodder, John Flodder and Ellen Pendleton ( Flodder ) and a local person, Margaret Bix ( Elvyn ).
In 1977, Robinson's composition " Singin ' the Blues " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet as Okeh 40772-B.
The young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( which was not in fact “ original ,” but was the first “ jazz ” band to record ), and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on the young cornet player.

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In 1939, Hoagy Bix, the Carmichaels ' first child, was born.
Bix Brent ( stage name of Ruth Anne Guise, born December 2, 1923 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ) was a founding member of The Heathertones who sang on many recordings in the early 1950s.

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A friend remembered that the plots of the silent matinees Bix and his friends watched on Saturdays didn't interest him much, but as soon as the lights came on he would rush home to see if he could duplicate the melodies the accompanist had played during the action.
" Bix and all the rest would play and exchange ideas on the piano ," he said.
" Louis departed greatly from all cornet players in his ability to compose a close-knit individual 32 measures with all phrases compatible with each other …," Spurrier told the biographers Sudhalter and Evans, " so Bix and I always credited Louis as being the father of the correlated chorus: play two measures, then two related, making four measures, on which you played another four measures related to the first four, and so on ad infinitum to the end of the chorus.
LaRocca's playing and recordings were an important early influence on such later jazz trumpeters as Red Nichols, Bix Beiderbecke and Phil Napoleon.
His first major song with his own lyrics was " Rockin ' Chair ", recorded by Armstrong and Mildred Bailey, and eventually with his own hand-picked studio band ( featuring Bix, Bubber Miley, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Bud Freeman, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and Gene Krupa ) on May 15, 1930.
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 ".
Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.
Hardy was an important influence on Bix Beiderbecke ; Monk Hazel said that Bix on the Wolverines records sounds very much like Hardy.
After Canadian filmmaker Brigitte Berman interviewed Shaw, Hoagy Carmichael, Doc Cheatham and others for her documentary film Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet ( 1981 ) about Bix Beiderbecke, she went on to create an Academy Award-winning documentary, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got ( 1985 ), featuring her interviews with Shaw, Buddy Rich, Mel Tormé, Helen Forrest and others.

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