Bix Beiderbecke - In a Mist download song

Thanks for sharing. What a gem.

God, this is so moving! 'Candlelights' and this were beautiful pieces written by a genius whose life was tragically cut short at 28 by the demon drink. My dad, who also liked more than a drop, was born in the same year as Bix -1903. He lived until 1983. What would Bix have written had he lived longer?

I cry every time i listen to this song. This played at the lowering of my grandfather funeral and he listened to and adored Bix for as long as i can remember being younger listening to him play lonely melody and other classics i realize the art of this.

I think I saw someone describe this as Debussy meets Duke. Quite a good description. I suspect Bix had a mind that never stopped thinking about music. A complex genius for sure.

I'm here because I'm reading Mez Mezzrow's "Really the Blues" and he mentions this in detail.

Today is his 112th birthday.  He could have made music into the 1980s had he lived a normal life.

Many thanks for your, reply I did not know Bix played the piano as well as the trumpet, Did he ever record a disc called "Poor Bessie" I know he did "Bessie couldn't help it" with Hoagy Carmichael 1928 but "Poor Bessie" is a different tune Thanks again

The thing about Bix is that all his contemporary peers--black and white--loved his playing. I'll take Satch's opinion over some revisionist critic any day.

Sometimes I think that, of all the players of that generation, Bix Beiderbecke's genius is the most buried in time. Artistically and temperamentally, the genius of, say, a Louie Armstrong seems to have been easier to capture on record. Perhaps from an innate self-consciousness, as Ralph Berton's memoir would have it, or perhaps simply from the strains of being a professional "entertainer," it just seems like there's so little of Bix (the real, unrestrained Bix, whoever that might have been) to go around; whenever I hear a recording of his, I just feel so far away from him. I think this record and Davenport Blues get closest to capturing what was making him tick, the kind of music that was aching to burst free from his soul.

Someone invent a time machine soon so I can go back and save Bix for the World. Genius!!!!

In a mist, the meeting of Debussy and Duke Ellington

WHOLE TONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is very nice! Really like it. I wish this was popular today. I will put it on my i-pod sometime.

In a mist - poem by Dutch poet Remco Campert (fragment) Title of a composition by Bix Beiderbecke 1. In a house that wasn't mine with the woman that once was mine the piano that nobody could play and the bill that nobody could pay house of mist woman of mist words of mist love of mist in a mist... (...) 3. In a mist I've been walking for years in a mist of words and gestures in a mist of pain and insecurity once I will disappear in a mist of numbness

Am I going mad or does anyone think a young Theolonius Monk might have been influenced by this tune? Wish there were more of his (Bix's) piano pieces recorded.

This is the only one of his piano works that he recorded and all were taken down on sheet music by Bill Challis

I'm playing this today for a ragtime fest in Long Beach, CA. One of my favorites.

This is amazing, such a peaceful tune. I love Bix but I'm ashamed to say I'd never heard this one until today. I'm glad I've finally heard it now though, I think I'll be listening to it a lot :)