Bix, an interpretation of a legend (1991)

[@juanvillanueva5267]

I love this film. I have been loving it ever since its release. A very fine bio and excellent music. Bix! Yeah!

[@johns.4708]

Heartbreaking story. Know it well, but seeing it dramatized gets me all over again. Genius is a funny thing.

[@spongevee1]

This was a zany episode and it flew by!

[@luislogarich9619]

Bix is alive! For ever.

[@germanaperitore6040]

Splendida "ipotesi" di una leggenda nata nel cuore profondo dell'America

[@edwarddesenne8188]

Arrangements for this early film by Bob Wilber---.Francis Coppola's film "The Cotton Club" owed much too to Bob's arranging artistry for which he obtained a Grammy Award

[@davidemattiello8107]

Bellissimo film

[@danvanlandingham3854]

Regarding this "mystery girl".Her name,according to Dick Sudhalter in "Bix,Man and Legend" was Helen Weiss.Hoagy Carmichael said he met her when Bix stopped by his home with her.This was supposedly some two weeks before his death.Carmichael made the comment about how good he looked.She was supposed to have gotten the piano Bix owned which was a Weber grand.As of 1973,it was still in the Beiderbecke family.

[@msjazzmeblues]

The girl Hoagy met was actually named Alice Weiss. Hoagy later mistakenly recalled the first name of a another girlfriend of Bix's whose first name was Helen. Alice kept Bix's piano until her death, at which time it went to her sister and was then eventually resold several times. It was located and is now at the Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive in Davenport, IA.

[@pangenium]

great movie!

[@Bixfan78]

I have been a Bix devotee for 40 years and was blessed to write the booklet notes for four volumes of the "Bix Restored" CD series created by Sunbeam 20 years ago. I was angry at this movie because they made Frank Trumbauer into a BAD guy! Trumbauer was Bix's protector all during the years they were together, trying to keep him from drinking, getting him jobs, supporting him in every way. And in this idiotic movie, they have Trumbauer kicking Bix off the bandstand and calling him "You little a*****e." Who do they turn into Bix's protector? Joe Venuti!! The most irresponsible wild man of 1920s jazz! Why did the director do this? Because Venuti was Italian? This *could* have been so great, but there is indeed a lot of creative license, too much for me to stomach.

[@dickmiles6639]

you are right

[@CPorter]

wouldn't it be Jack Purvis who was the most wild and irresponsible? The guy literally stole a horse just to impress one of the Boswells about a lie he made saying "yeah I ride horses!"

[@jethrobodineous]

That’s me at 35:14!!!!