Luminous talent that burned all too briefly; A genius at 24, dead of drink at 28, Bix Beiderbecke was the prototype of pop music's selestructive heroes. Terry Grimley looks at the man and finds t ime has done little to diminish his best recordings.

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: July 7, 1998| Author: Grimley, Terry | Copyright information

Many details of cultural history are shrouded in uncertainty and debate, but one which seems to be an unshakeable fact is the identity of the first jazz record.

This distinction belongs to Livery Stable Blues, recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in February 1917.

The disc, recorded before Douglas Haig unleashed his mud-bound offensive in Flanders, sold a million copies and helped set the pattern for successive waves of pop music mania which would foll...

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