Beiderbecke
Americannoun
noun
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A child prodigy, Beiderbecke first fell in love with jazz via the frenetically bouncy tune “Tiger Rag.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Carmichael wanted to quickly capture the tune that was famously inspired by a girl, the improvisational prowess of his cornetist friend Bix Beiderbecke or maybe both.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
Most prominently through the San Antonio-based Jim Cullum Jazz Band, he devoted his career to resurrecting music popularized by the likes of Beiderbecke, Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
Here’s Nora, Tom-Tom’s girlfriend, a bohemian artist played by Ann Schuyler, twenty-five, entering a middle-class living room: “Beethoven on the bed, Beiderbecke in the bathroom, Brubeck on the bread box. Let me out!”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
Starting out on classical piano at age 6, Wagner grew up hearing jazz records by pianist Art Tatum and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, thanks to his father, who led a dance band in Omaha, Neb.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2016
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