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Title: Remembering Bix: A Memoir Of The Jazz Age by Ralph Berton, Nat Hentoff ISBN: 0-306-80937-0 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 20 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: one of my top 5....
Comment: i haven't read this in a while. i came across it in a little bookstore in san francisco, bought it and didn't put it down for a week. it is such an unbelievably rich experience. it does bear mentioning that the book doesn't wholly focus on bix. you end up not really caring. the portions dealing with bix are very profound and highly memorable.
ralph berton is a very sensitive writer. his ability to draw in the reader is formidable.
i loaned my copy to my mom, so i came to amazon to buy another copy.
Rating: 3
Summary: Take with a grain of salt (and a slug of gin)
Comment: This book is essentially everything you wanted to know about the career, family and sex life of Ralph Berton -- oh, and then there's that guy Beiderbecke who keeps hanging around him.
Actually, it's not a bad evocation of a frantic era and how it ended. Berton paints some great word pictures of what it must have been like to travel with the Wolverines and party with a still young-and-healthy Bix. The skeptical or more serious reader, however, may speculate on exactly where the facts end and the fiction begins.
For a more even-handed bio, a better bet is Sudhalter/Evans' BIX: MAN AND LEGEND, which treats its subject with respect without turning into a dry listing of facts and dates.
Still, REMEMBERING BIX is a fun read for anyone in love with Bix, his music, and his times.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's WONDERFUL......plain & simple!
Comment: I, too, read it a long time ago. I would have been crazy about this book even if I'd never heard of Bix. Every paragraph is a gem. Berton bubbles over with cleverness. I use expressions & phrases that I picked up from the book, every day! And like another reviewer, I would love to know what happened to Ralph Berton.
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Title: 1929 by Frederick Turner, Frederick W. Turner ISBN: 1582432651 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title:Bix Beiderbecke, Vol. 1: Singin' the Blues ASIN: B0000026WV Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 05 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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Title:Bix Beiderbecke, Vol. 2: At the Jazz Band Ball ASIN: B00000274K Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 07 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.99 |
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Title:Private Astronomy: Vision of Music of Beiderbecke ASIN: B0000C3I2R Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title: Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton by Howard Reich, William Gaines, William M. Gaines ISBN: 0306812096 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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