The Washington Post, June 22nd, 2003
1929 By Frederick Turner Counterpoint. 390 pp. $25 Jazz great Bix Beiderbecke was the Kurt Cobain of the 1920s: a tortured musical genius who in a short and sadly besotted bohemian life seemed to encapsulate something essential about his times. If he didn't exist, it would have been necessary to invent him. Indeed, so little has been preserved of his legacy that an invented Bix -- or at least a mythical one -- has remained at the seat of his renown since his untimely death in 1931, at the tender age of 28. Most of his great performances eluded both the fledgling technology and the commercial s...
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