Remembering Bix: : A memoir of the Jazz Age
by Berton, Ralph
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: chipping and edge wear, clipped, age toning.
- ISBN 10
- 0060103043
- ISBN 13
- 9780060103040
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight/DJ G: chipping and edge wear, clipped, age toning.. 8vo 428pp. from front flap: "Hoagy Carmichael said that once you heard Bix Beiderbecke blow four notes on his horn, your life would never be the same. Bix has always inspired that kind of rhetoric, and the cliche "a legend in his own time" was only the exact truth about him. A petted musical prodigy at seven, at twenty-one Bix, with barely two years of professional work, was considered one of the most brilliant cornetists in the world by fans and fellow musicians. And he left a permanent imprint on the art--he was the first "cool" jazzman years before the word existed. The question is, how did Bix, shy, quiet, a child of conservative small-town America, rise to the pinnacle of the jazz world--and from thence slide to the shabby furnished flat where he died of gin and general indifference at twenty-eight?" #02083.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2021
- Title
- Remembering Bix
- Author
- Berton, Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight
- Jacket Condition
- DJ G: chipping and edge wear, clipped, age toning.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060103043
- ISBN 13
- 9780060103040
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- biography, jazz, music, nonfiction, first edition
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