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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: American jazz cornetists, Louis Armstrong, W. C. Handy, Joe "King" Oliver, Buddy Bolden, Bix Beiderbecke, Hugh Masekela, Emile Christian, Red Nichols, Nat Adderley, James "Bubber" Miley, Freddie Keppard, Papa Celestin, Dick Sudhalter, Olu Dara, Bobby Bradford, Bill Davison, Manuel Perez, Chris Tyle, Emmett Hardy, Paul Mares, Butch Morris, Dan Barrett, Buddie Petit, Ed Allen, Warren Vache, Rex Stewart, Monk Hazel, Peter Bocage, Jim Cullum, Jr., Sterling Bose, Wooden Joe Nicholas, Sylvester Ahola, Doc Evans, Melvin H. Ribble, Ernie Carson, Ed Polcer, De De Pierce, Dewey Jackson, Peter Ecklund, Merritt Brunies, Albert Brunies, Jeff Hughes, Bent Persson, George Mitchell, Johnny Bayersdorffer. Excerpt: Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 - August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. With Louis Armstrong, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" (1927) and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions but the only one he recorded, mixed classical influences with jazz syncopation. Beiderbecke also has been credited for his influence, directly, on Bing Crosby and, indirectly, via saxophonist Frank Trumbauer, on Lester Young. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering that some critics have connected to his original sound. He first recorded with a Midwestern jazz ensemble The Wolverines in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orch...
