Bix Beiderbecke

✶March 10, 1903

†August 6, 1931

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About their life

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke 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”.

American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer (1903–1931)

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