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Bix Beiderbecke

(1903–1931) Composer

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Bix Beiderbecke was a composer.

Quick Facts About Bix Beiderbecke

Born: March 10, 1903
Died: August 6, 1931
Profession: Composer

About Bix Beiderbecke

[Wikidata] American jazz musician (1903-1931)... | [Wikipedia] Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described

Quotes by Bix Beiderbecke

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W.…

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Band

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I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

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Band

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One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

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One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

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Happens

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The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,…

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Anguish

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Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called…

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