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9780306809378

Remembering Bix A Memoir Of The Jazz Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780306809378

  • ISBN10:

    0306809370

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-16
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Summary

Never before in paperback: A rare eyewitness appreciation of a jazz legend.

Author Biography

Ralph Berton (1910–1993) wrote extensively on jazz, serving as an editor at Metronome and Down Beat magazines and as editor-in-chief of Sound and Fury. He was also a professor of jazz history at Cooper Union, Middlesex County College, and Bloomfield College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Preface xi
Foreword xv
Prologue xix
August 6th, 1931
1(10)
What Shall Be Done with Little Bickie?
11(10)
Jazz
21(12)
Changes
33(12)
Lake Forest
45(14)
The Windy City
59(14)
The Real Thing
73(12)
Birds of Passage
85(12)
Family Portrait
97(12)
Listening
109(26)
Surprises
135(14)
A Reluctant Hero
149(24)
Some Chicago Afternoons
173(16)
Exploring
189(18)
Family Portrait II---My Brother Gene
207(14)
Values! Values!
221(14)
An Addition to the Family
235(6)
Miller Beach
241(18)
Midsummer Night Dreams
259(12)
Jazzing It Up at Skippy's
271(16)
Lessons
287(10)
End of Summer
297(4)
How We Got to New York
301(26)
Autumn in New York
327(14)
Our Separate Ways
341(16)
Zenith, Decline & Fall
357(30)
August 11th, 1931
387(10)
Epilogue 397(6)
Source Notes 403(2)
Bibliography, Discography, End Papers 405(12)
Index 417

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