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Remembering Bix

A Memoir Of The Jazz Age

By: Ralph Berton

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Paperback | 1 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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As Nat Hentoff says, "Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring." Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unmatched master of the cornet. Ralph Berton was privileged enough to have been a fan—and younger brother of Bix's drummer—just as Beiderbecke's genius was flowering, before he died in 1931 at age twenty-eight. Listening from behind the piano, tagging along to honky-tonks and jam sessions, Berton heard some of the most extraordinary music of the century, and he brings Bix and his era alive with a remarkable combination of the excitement of youth and the perspective of the five decades that followed—decades that confirmed Bix's place in the pantheon of jazz.

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