Todays EARLY JAZZ Interlude The Frankie Tram Trumbauer Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke - Singin the Blues. https://youtube/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI The first minute of the song is a sax solo by Trumbauer. The second minute is Bixs cornet solo. The third minute features a short clarinet solo by Jimmy Dorsey, who was the clarinetist in Trumbauers Orchestra at that time. The guitarist on this track is Eddie Lang. This song is considered a jazz classic because Bix and, to a lesser degree, Tram were able to make a slow-tempo jazz ballad swing. This ability to make slow-tempo swinging jazz would later be emulated by jazz musicians ranging from Lester Young to John Coltrane to Miles Davis. On February 4, 1927, Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra recorded Trumbology, Clarinet Marmalade, and Singin the Blues, all three of which featured some of Beiderbeckes best work. Again with Trumbauer, Beiderbecke re-recorded Carmichaels Riverboat Shuffle in May and delivered two of his best known solos a few days later on Im Coming, Virginia and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Leon Bismark Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on Singin the Blues and Im Coming, Virginia (both 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 and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) 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.
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