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Bix Beiderbecke

1903 - 1931

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Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke ( BY-dər-bek; March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like "shooting bullets at a bell”. His solos on seminal recordings such as "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927) demonstrate a gift for extended improvisation that heralded the jazz ballad style, in which jazz solos are an integral part of the composition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bix Beiderbecke has received more than 1,252,535 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Bix Beiderbecke is the 801st most popular musician (down from 648th in 2019), the 4,024th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,317th in 2019) and the 269th most popular American Musician.

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  • 32

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Bix Beiderbecke ranks 801 out of 2,662. Before him are Paul van Dyk, Art Pepper, Sammy Hagar, Berry Gordy, Carmine Appice, and Paco Ibáñez. After him are John Williams, Ray Brown, Earl Hines, Dimebag Darrell, Peter Winter, and Richard Galliano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Bix Beiderbecke ranks 154. Before him are Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Anatoly Alexandrov, Pierre Veyron, Fumiko Hayashi, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Louis Seigner. After him are Earl Hines, Joseph Cornell, W. Ross Ashby, Gaito Gazdanov, Ona Munson, and Peppino De Filippo. Among people deceased in 1931, Bix Beiderbecke ranks 76. Before him are Henri Mathias Berthelot, Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, Sukhdev Thapar, Dionysios Kasdaglis, Viktor Dyk, and Louis Dollo. After him are Franz Schalk, Eugen Schmidt, Jacques Herbrand, Oskar Minkowski, Teresa Claramunt Creus, and Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bix Beiderbecke ranks 4,024 out of 18,182. Before him are Bud Abbott (1897), Larry Wall (1954), Amadeo Giannini (1870), Jerome Kern (1885), Kevin Feige (1973), and Sarah Clarke (1972). After him are Bobby Vinton (1935), Dana Reeve (1961), Charles T. Kowal (1940), Maureen Stapleton (1925), Ray Brown (1926), and Gregory Benford (1941).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Bix Beiderbecke ranks 269. Before him are Michael Nesmith (1942), Kenny G (1956), Art Pepper (1925), Sammy Hagar (1947), Berry Gordy (1929), and Carmine Appice (1946). After him are Ray Brown (1926), Earl Hines (1903), Dimebag Darrell (1966), Sam Phillips (1923), Freddie Hubbard (1938), and James Ingram (1952).

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