An early classic jazz performer: Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Beiderbecke made a tremendous impression on everyone who heard him in the flesh from the beginning of 1924 onward, when he began working throughout the Midwest with the Chicago-based Wolverines. Eddie Condon, for example, initially heard him playing piano; “For the first time I realized that music isn’t all the same”, he wrote. When he finally heard Beidersbeck’s cornet, “The sound came out like a girl saying yes”.