A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke

Echoes of Swing

Label: ACT music
Format: CD
Barcode: 0614427982629

Catalog number: ACT 98262
Releasedate: 14-10-16

- double CD

- hommage to Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931), an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer

Our perceptions of major figures in music from previous epochs tend to change over the course of time. There may indeed be something of a paradox here, because the innovators of the past are often only truly recognized and appreciated by later generations. The more energetically and decisively a pioneer has broken with the past, the more he (or she) will have been mistrusted and cast aside in their life-times, and the more is required from the rear-view mirror of posterity before they can start to be treated with respect, let alone with honour.

Intro Ol’ Man River