Name: Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend (en Inglés)
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Author: Wolfe, Brendan
ISBN: 9781609385064

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Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Brendan Wolfe

Editorial

University of Iowa Press

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781609385064

Categorías

Jazz
Música popular
Biografía: general

Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend (en Inglés)

Brendan Wolfe (Autor) · University of Iowa Press · Tapa Blanda

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Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to "cool" jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in 1931--at the age of twenty-eight. It was this meteoric rise and fall, combined with the searing originality of his playing and the mystery of his character--who was Bix? not even his friends or family seemed to know--that inspired subsequent generations to imitate him, worship him, and write about him. It also provoked Brendan Wolfe's Finding Bix a personal and often surprising attempt to connect music, history, and legend. A native of Beiderbecke's hometown of Davenport, Iowa, Wolfe grew up seeing Bix's iconic portrait on everything from posters to parking garages. He never heard his music, though, until cast to play a bit part in an Italian biopic filmed in Davenport. Then, after writing a newspaper review of a book about Beiderbecke, Wolfe unexpectedly received a letter from the late musician's nephew scolding him for getting a number of facts wrong. This is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right. What follows, though, is anything but straightforward, as Wolfe discovers Bix Beiderbecke to be at the heart of furious and ever-timely disputes over addiction, race and the origins of jazz, sex, and the influence of commerce on art. He also uncovers proof that the only newspaper interview Bix gave in his lifetime was a fraud, almost entirely plagiarized from several different sources. In fact, Wolfe comes to realize that the closer he seems to get to Bix, the more the legend retreats.