Bix Restored, Vol. 2

by Bix Beiderbecke

Overview

The second volume of Bix Restored, Sunbeam's massive effort to gather together every note that the legendary Bix Beiderbecke ever blew on record, takes up where Vol. 1 left off, right in the middle of the prime Beiderbecke sessions with Frankie Trumbauer. The first disc of the three-CD set shuttles between the remaining Trumbauer sides of 1927, famously buoyant sessions by Beiderbecke and his gang, and an interlude with the Willard Robison group, Tram, and a period vocal quintet. The vast bulk of the remaining two discs is taken up by Beiderbecke's records with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, with a few side trips under Trumbauer's name. That's quite a prolific stretch of recording over a five-month period by the standards of any era. Yet true to the legend, each and every solo by Beiderbecke, be it a single chorus, an intro, or taking turns in bursts with his colleagues, is an exquisitely turned, perfectly poised etching in sound, absolutely a part of its time and also speaking to the future. His solos on the Whiteman recordings often come as crisp, cocky bursts of sass; at other times, he is just part of the trumpet section playing straight off the page. This box set will also serve as a detailed sampling as to how far afield the huge Whiteman orchestra would go to gather an audience, ranging from genuinely hot jazz to perky/sentimental period pops and some of the most eccentric classical/pop hybrids -- dig the Wagner! -- ever put on wax. The transfers by John R.T. Davies and Michael Kieffer are remarkably honest, leaving in the innate surface noise and distortion caused by needle wear yet reproducing a satisfying musical image of the original 78s. Those with access to original pressings will notice a small lack of presence, but in comparison to the heavily processed, compressed transfers of the first seven tracks by Columbia on Singin' the Blues, the Sunbeam set is way is better by far. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Product Details

Release Date:	02/05/1999
Label:	Origin Records
UPC:	0784554045624
Rank:	171809

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Humpty Dumpty
2. Krazy Kat
3. The Baltimore
4. There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland to Me
5. There's a Cradle in Caroline
6. Just an Hour of Love
7. I'm Wonderin' Who
8. At the Jazz Band Ball
9. Royal Garden Blues
10. Jazz Me Blues
11. I'm More Than Satisfied
12. I'm More Than Satisfied
13. Clorinda
14. Clorinda
15. Three Blind Mice
16. Three Blind Mice
17. Goose Pimples
18. Sorry
19. Cryin' All Day
20. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
21. Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down
22. Sugar
23. Washboard Blues

Disc 2

24. Washboard Blues
25. Changes
26. Changes
27. (What Are You Waiting For) Mary
28. (What Are You Waiting For) Mary
29. Ramona
30. Smile
31. Lonely Melody
32. Lonely Melody
33. O Ya Ya
34. Dolly Dimples
35. There'll Come a Time
36. Jubilee
37. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
38. Ol' Man River
39. San
40. San
41. Mississippi Mud
42. Together
43. My Heart Stood Still
44. My Heart Stood Still
45. Smile

Disc 3

46. Smile
47. Back in Your Own Backyard
48. Back in Your Own Backyard
49. There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears
50. There Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears
51. Dardanella
52. Love Nest
53. Sunshine
54. Sunshine
55. From Monday On
56. Grand Fantasia from Wagneriana
57. A Shady Tree
58. Three Shades of Blue
59. Mississippi Mud
60. Mississippi Mud
61. Chloe
62. High Water
63. From Monday On
64. From Monday On

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bix Beiderbecke   Primary Artist
Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang   Primary Artist
The Broadway Bell-Hops   Primary Artist
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Willard Robison   Primary Artist
Paul Whiteman Orchestra   Primary Artist
Frankie Trumbauer   Primary Artist
Mischa Russell   Violin

Technical Credits

Leon Jessel   Composer
Fred Fisher   Composer
Donald Heywood   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Mabel Wayne   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Peter DeRose   Composer
Paul Whiteman Orchestra   Performer
Spencer Williams   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Sidney Mitchell   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Billy Rose   Composer
Bing Crosby   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Louis Wolfe Gilbert   Composer
Jack Yellen   Composer
James Cavanaugh   Composer
Larry Shields   Composer
Jo Trent   Composer
Eddie Edwards   Composer
Eddie Green   Composer
Fletcher Henderson   Composer
Fats Waller   Composer
Frankie Trumbauer   Composer
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra   Performer
Fred B. Callahan   Composer
Walter Donaldson   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Joe Young   Composer
Lew Brown   Composer
Walter Hirsch   Composer
Howdy Quicksell   Composer
Sam Coslow   Composer
Neil Moret   Composer
Nick LaRocca   Composer
Ray Lodwig   Composer
Ray Henderson   Composer
Raymond Klages   Composer
Otto Harbach   Composer
Milton Ager   Composer
Tom Delaney   Composer
Al Jolson   Composer
Buddy DeSylva   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Hal Dyson   Composer
Henry W. Ragas   Composer
Dave Dreyer   Composer
Willard Robison   Performer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Fud Livingston   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Chauncey Morehouse   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Tony Sbarbaro   Composer
Felix Bernard   Composer
Miff Mole   Composer
Harry Barris   Composer
Wingy Manone   Composer
Richard Wagner   Composer
Benny Meroff   Composer
Ferde Grofe   Composer
J. Keirn Brennan   Composer
Johnny Black   Composer
Frank Crum   Composer