Futuristic Rhythms: Imagining the Later Bix Beiderbecke Format:MP3 Drummer Hal Smith

Drummer Hal Smith

the Floridita

producing a string of quintessential 1920s "hot dance band" records

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Futuristic Rhythms: Imagining the Later Bix Beiderbecke Format:MP3 Drummer Hal SmithIn his all too brief life, Bix Beiderbecke achieved what so many musicians aspire to: a truly unique and personal voice. He was an innovator. His pioneering use of introspection and understatement, the boldness of his harmonic language, his tone itself all would echo far downstream in the course of jazz history. His death in 1931 at age 28 has led generations of admirers to wonder what might have been. How would Bix have negotiated the changes in jazz