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Leon Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa to a strict middle-class family. As a teenager he would sneak off to the banks of the Mississippi to listen to the bands play on the riverboats that would come up from the south.
His early influences were mostly New Orleans jazz cornetists. His first big influence was Nick LaRocca of the Original Dixieland Jass Band; the LaRocca evidence is evident in a number of Bix's recordings (especially the covers of O.D.J.B. tunes), although Bix far surpasses LaRocca both in technique and ideas. Other influences included "King" Joe Oliver and Louis Armstrong, and clarinetist Leon Roppolo. Bix's famous two note interjection on "Goose Pimples" puzzles some of his fans unfamiliar with the older New Orleans players, but is appropriate and unsurprising to those familiar with the style of Freddie KeppardFreddie Keppard (sometimes rendered as Freddy Keppard ( February 27, 1890 July 15, 1933) was an early jazz cornetist. Keppard was born in the Creole of Color community of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. His older brother Louis Keppard was also a professi. According to many contemporaries Bix's single biggest influence was Emmett HardyEmmett Hardy ( June 12, 1903 June 16, 1925) was an early jazz cornet player and one of the best regarded New Orleans musicians of his generation. Emmett Louis Hardy was born in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna, Louisiana, lived much of his life in the Alg, a highly regarded New Orleans cornetist of whom we unfortunately have no recordings; several fellow musicians said that Hardy's influence is very evident in Bix's early recordings with The Wolverines. Bix was also influenced by music that had hitherto been far removed from jazz, such as the compositions of Claude DebussyClaude Achille Debussy ( August 22, 1862 March 25, 1918), composer of impressionistic classical music. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France, Claude Debussy studied with Guiraud and others at the Paris Conservatoire ( 1872- 84) and as an 1884 Pr, Maurice RavelMaurice Ravel ( March 7, 1875 December 28, 1937) was a French composer, best known for his orchestral work, Bolero and his famous 1922 orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. He was born in Ciboure, France (near Biarritz,, and the American Impressionists, notably Eastwood LaneEastwood Lane ( May 22, 1879 January 22, 1951) was a American composer who wrote piano suites, impressionist pieces, and ballet. Eastwood Lane was born in Brewerton, New York. His compositions include "Adirondack Sketches", "Sea Burial", "Eastern Seas", ". Such influences aside, Bix is remembered today for the fact that he played like no one else. Bix developed his own individualistic style of jazz cornet playing, which was unlike his predecessors and influenced those who followed. As Louis Armstrong said, "Lots of cats tried to play like Bix; ain't none of them play like him yet".
Young Bix's parents thought he was going to ruin his life by going into music and sent him to a boarding school, but Bix broke out to pursue his music career.
Bix first recorded with his band The Wolverines in 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu, then became a sought-after musician in Chicago and then New York. He made innovative and influential recordings with Frankie TrumbauerFrankie (Tram) Trumbauer ( 1901 1956) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played C-melody saxophone, which in size is between an alto and tenor saxophone. He was recruited by Bix Beiderbecke for Jean Goldkette's Victor Reco ("Tram") and the Jean GoldketteJean Goldkette ( 18 March, 1899 24 March, 1962) was a jazz pianist and bandleader. Born in France and raised in Greece, he emigrated to the United States in 1911. He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the best known was his Victor Recording Orchestra Orchestra. He and Trambauer, a saxophone player, joined the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, the most popular and highest paid band of the day.
Bix also played piano, sometimes switching to that instrument for a chorus or two during a tune. He wrote several compositions for the piano, and recorded one of them, "In A Mist".
In 1931 at the age of 28, Bix died of excessive drinking. Many of his family issues went unresolved.
Louis Armstrong paid high praise to Bix when he remarked that he never played the tune "Singin' the Blues" because thought Bix's classic recording of the tune shouldn't be touched.
The novel Young Man With a Horn (1938) by Dorothy Baker was a fictional work partially based on Beiderbecke's life. It was later made into a movie (1950) starring Kirk Douglas (with horn playing dubbed by Harry James).
Beiderbecke's music features heavily in three British comedy-drama television series, all written by Alan Plater: The Beiderbecke Affair ( 1984), The Beiderbecke Tapes ( 1987) and The Beiderbecke Connection ( 1988).
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