RTS 4154 - Bix Beiderbecke - Young Man With A Horn

Cornettist Leon Bismark (“Bix”) Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was a classic jazz innovator of iconic status. His appallingly early death at only 28, after a mere six years’ recording career, has led to much romantically-assembled myth and legend as the archetypal troubled creator whose gifts are terminated too soon by life’s cruelties. But it was of course his music that came first. That, as this collection conclusively illustrates, is where the story really starts and ends a story of innovation which places him at the central birthplace of jazz as we define it today.

Label: Retrospective
Copyright: 2009 Wyastone Estate Limited.
Catalogue number: RTS 4154
UPC/EAN: 0710357415425
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 2
Total playing time: 2 hours 36 mins
Price: £ 10.99 (+ postage & packing)