1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age,New

1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age,New

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By 1929, the brief, brilliant career of Bix Beiderbeckeselftaught cornetist, pianist, and composerhad already become legend. From the summer of '26 at Hudson Lake, Indiana, when his genius blazed forth with a strange, doomed incandescence, Bix's career tragically reflected the chaotic impulses of a country suddenly awash in wealth, power, and a profound cynicism. Shy, elusive, inarticulate, Bix was beloved by both the raccooncoated campus crowd and the men who nightly played alongside him. He is still celebrated in a yearly festival in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa.And that is where the novel begins, Davenport and the Bix Fest. Then it travels back in time to focus on the highlights of a meteoric career: a Caponecontrolled nightclub in 1926; the grueling crosscountry tours with Paul Whiteman's Symphonic Jazz orchestra; the disastrous Whiteman trip to California to make the first allcolor talkie musical; the stock market crash of 1929 that finds Bix in an asylum, victim of the era's signature product, bootleg gin; and finally, Bix's dying efforts to combine his piano compositions into a suite that would be the pinnacle of his life's work and his evocation of his time and place.Colored by some of the age's most popular charactersMaurice Ravel, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Clara Bow 1929 brilliantly illuminates a period in history, personified in the gifted, compelling, and melancholy figure of Bix Beiderbecke.

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