--- product_id: 46674364 title: "Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend" price: "157.12 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/46674364-finding-bix-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-jazz-legend store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend **Price:** 157.12 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend - **How much does it cost?** 157.12 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/46674364-finding-bix-the-life-and-afterlife-of-a-jazz-legend) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend [Wolfe, Brendan] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend Review: What does it mean to become a legend? - Wow, I had such a different experience than a couple of, um, very passionate reviewers on here. I guess if you were looking for "The Most Definitive Biography of Bix Beiderbecke Ever Written," yes, this would fall short. Why? Because that's not the book the author set out to write, as he makes clear multiple times. Instead, what Wolfe gives us is so rich! He wrestles with what we know about Bix vs. what we can never know vs. the Bix legend, and his thoughts on how we make these legends, and why, and what they require are as enjoyable to read as they are refreshing. This book is much more than straight biography (to its credit, in this case). A great read. Review: Finding Out Who Really Influenced The Writing of this Book - This book ought to be called, "Finding out that my friend Barb's emailed discussions to me totally influenced my opinion of Bix and the writing of this book. " Every other quotation in an end note reads: "from an email sent by [and her full name]. I'm in the end notes too, puzzlingly so (he never asked my permission if he could quote from my postings on the Bixography Forum chat website) concerning some rather stupid, badly drawn French comic rendition of Bix, but no matter. We get "restless, fiercely intelligent" (you know what that's shorthand for) B.W's vituperative opinions of how "there was something fundamentally, seriously wrong with Bix", that he was "an impossible little s---", and her reassessment, based on speculation only, of what was going on between Bix and Hoagy during listening to a recording of The Firebird, as if she'd been sitting right there in the frat house room in 1924. I mean, so what? It gets a little wearing to have every idea and opinion presented in this book be totally hers, all tied up with a bow, when it would seem to any reader that she obviously loathes even the very mention of Bix Beiderbecke and, more importantly, that this is supposed to be Brendan Wolfe's book and was amusingly written enough to have stood on its own, whether readers agree with his, the author's, conclusions or not. Shouldn't the books we write be comprised of our own ideas? Or am I missing something here? ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,993,961 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #351 in Jazz Musician Biographies #1,592 in Jazz Music (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars (24) | | Dimensions | 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches | | Edition | 1st | | ISBN-10 | 1609385063 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1609385064 | | Item Weight | 12.8 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 272 pages | | Publication date | May 15, 2017 | | Publisher | University Of Iowa Press | ## Images ![Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61TK5QvBHBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What does it mean to become a legend? *by A***R on March 8, 2018* Wow, I had such a different experience than a couple of, um, very passionate reviewers on here. I guess if you were looking for "The Most Definitive Biography of Bix Beiderbecke Ever Written," yes, this would fall short. Why? Because that's not the book the author set out to write, as he makes clear multiple times. Instead, what Wolfe gives us is so rich! He wrestles with what we know about Bix vs. what we can never know vs. the Bix legend, and his thoughts on how we make these legends, and why, and what they require are as enjoyable to read as they are refreshing. This book is much more than straight biography (to its credit, in this case). A great read. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Finding Out Who Really Influenced The Writing of this Book *by L***D on October 13, 2021* This book ought to be called, "Finding out that my friend Barb's emailed discussions to me totally influenced my opinion of Bix and the writing of this book. " Every other quotation in an end note reads: "from an email sent by [and her full name]. I'm in the end notes too, puzzlingly so (he never asked my permission if he could quote from my postings on the Bixography Forum chat website) concerning some rather stupid, badly drawn French comic rendition of Bix, but no matter. We get "restless, fiercely intelligent" (you know what that's shorthand for) B.W's vituperative opinions of how "there was something fundamentally, seriously wrong with Bix", that he was "an impossible little s---", and her reassessment, based on speculation only, of what was going on between Bix and Hoagy during listening to a recording of The Firebird, as if she'd been sitting right there in the frat house room in 1924. I mean, so what? It gets a little wearing to have every idea and opinion presented in this book be totally hers, all tied up with a bow, when it would seem to any reader that she obviously loathes even the very mention of Bix Beiderbecke and, more importantly, that this is supposed to be Brendan Wolfe's book and was amusingly written enough to have stood on its own, whether readers agree with his, the author's, conclusions or not. Shouldn't the books we write be comprised of our own ideas? Or am I missing something here? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The story of a brilliant, self-destructive jazz musician *by L***A on June 10, 2017* Finding Bix is not a conventional biography. It does not evolve chronologically. The book is reminiscent of jazz. It starts a story, riffs on it until you forget the original melody and eventually circles back to the beginning. Bix Beiderbecke is one of those brilliant artists who appeared on the scene, changed the genre and self-destructed at a young age. He played with Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael and other well known musicians in the late 1920's and very early 1930's. Bix died in 1931 at the age of 28. His fame is most notable among cornet players, jazz musicians, and residents of Davenport, Iowa. Had he lived longer, he surely would have achieved broader recognition with the general public. My favorite parts of this book were when the author, or one of the many people whom he interviewed, told his personal story of why Bix was important to him. Brendan Wolfe spent 13 years researching and writing this story and seems to have left no source unchecked. I became interested in learning about Bix Beiderbecke when I heard that the classic movie, Young Man With a Horn, was loosely based on his life. 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