Louis Armstrong remembers Bix Beiderbecke

Louis Armstrong gives his opinions on Bix Beiderbecke's early demise

[@pawnee55]

"He didn't know how to say NO. And he didn't know how to say GOOD NIGHT." Priceless.

[@Cam-gk9ms]

Yeah that's pretty crazy. Never heard anybody speak about him like that.. I know so many people like that today.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

I agree. Incredibly profound. When Rex Stewart first met Louis, he was drinking too much- Louis said "boy, you gotta stop with that gin. There'll be flowers, but you won't be smelling 'em."

[@15emac]

I worked in a restaurant where Louis Armstrong & His All Stars played. He was so charismatic & the people adored him-we had 2 kids who played trumpet & a girl who played piano-Louis had them bring in their horns & after the set he & his piano man Marty napoleon jammed "Five Foot 2 Eyes of Blue" with our guys-it was the only tune they all knew-it was unreal!

[@danielduggan5495]

yeah my favourite line- so hardline- man it is abrupt but it is so clinical- it is like a symbol in the midst of free jazz- pulls the tempo out.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Louis was such a good man. He came up from tough times and because of his good sense, he became a legend.

[@ABrandsma]

So Armstrong here gives just in one sentence the (often disputed) proof, that he and Bix met, (at least 3 times) practised together and respected each others work. Jazz brings people together, shouldn't be used to devide them.

[@goshlikkrudbahr5109]

who disputed it? And furthermore, why? Bix and Freddie Keppard? You'd have a point. 😉

[@barbaraeffros4804]

Thank you Jonathan, this is an amazing piece of history.🎶🎺🎶

[@Women_Rock]

What a treat it would have been to have a recording of Bix and Louie playing that evening in *Chicago.

[@msjazzmeblues]

That was Chicago.

[@wayneengle4473]

It certainly would! Would be a priceless recording.

[@aaron-dd5zr]

My Grandfather was in a Jazz band in Connecticut. After returning from WW11, he was a Trumpet,and the Coronet piece he put on the end of his Trumpet, the Slide Trombone . That music i still listen to. Good to see a Utube leaves no music unturned. Glad to see others here enjoying it. Spread the Word,

[@rickwilmot9127]

Real piece of jazz history. Thanks for posting...

[@VictrolaJazz]

What a wonderful reminiscence. Wish it could have gone on for an hour, which it probably did! Sad about Bix, too!

[@brianholihan5497]

A lot of musicians have fantasy jams--great musicians playing together in sessions that were never recorded. The jam that Louis and Bix had while alone in that room is at the top my my list.

[@emmanuely4685]

1:49 "You take people that don't understand your wrongs, they're not your friends."

[@Django44]

Not an ounce of ego in Pops; he gave credit where credit was due but also placed limits on where it wasn't. Can't be more realistic - and fair - than that.

[@dirtyunclehubert]

satchmo speaks words of great great life wisdom here, people take note!

[@wayneengle4473]

That photo shows Bix's good looks, in the eyes of many women, much better than photos taken of his face, straight on.

[@jackwilloughby239]

I was thinking that Tom Holland could do a wonderful Bio Pic of Bix.

[@SpielinWhelan]

Bix and Louis playing together .........oh to have been there

[@james-flynn1938]

This realy interesting this im certainly sharing this one

[@giovannirivoira5496]

A gem of a reminiscence!!!thank you so much!!

[@bobtaylor170]

Wow! Thank you.

[@turtlevox4181]

Oh, to have been present for those 4 AM jam sessions.

[@danielduggan5495]

You know, if you listen to this tribute- at one point Lou mumble's 'clean out'- well Bix drunk himself to death- according to Jazz myth his trumpet sounded like 'bullets shot from a silver bell.' But as Lou points out- what is more important man- you get love and you get no help? Or you quit playin' and you DO!

[@samderrick]

2:40 Louis was a straight shooter, lol.

[@DanielWestwick]

Brilliant piece of jazz history. When was it recorded?

[@JonathanHolmesjazz]

I think it was the late 1960s when Louis came to visit the UK.

[@neilmclachlan3931]

A very astute guy, Mr Armstring, mostly sounds like he's goofing around,but not here.

[@danielduggan5495]

Lou- well you listen- he is loving, he may sound a little crazy- but he was so, so aware of one thing: 'when the music is over turn off the lights.' xx

[@seanchilton1719]

Its Sad for a musician Jazz trumpet player. and DRANK Alcohol, and had pneumonia. It's Sad that someone's life gets cut sort by drinking alcohol and died at age 31 years old. But on the other hand Bix Biederbeke was a wonderful Jazz composer. He could've lived longer and continue to play swing Jazz. Sean CHILTON Musician

[@camthesaxman3387]

Sad that so many jazz musicians had such short lives. We miss a lot of musical development that would've happened had they lived longer. Few of them lived past 70.

[@loilt5091]

Love Louis…straight no chaser‼️

[@nmonye01]

Wisdom

[@ser010267]

One man from Queens reminiscing about another from the same borough

[@jgeur]

bix was from iowa

[@treasuremuch9185]

@@jgeur Died in Queens anyway, lived there for a while beforehand.

[@henrybrowne7248]

Beiderbecke's last years were utterly miserable, I read somewhere.

[@darz3829]

From the photo of Bix it looks like he had cysts on his upper and lower lips. I know that Louis would sometimes have his lips bleed but one never thinks Bix played that hard.

[@seanchilton1719]

People who are Musician's of swing Jazz and blues they need to say NO! to people of offering Alcohol and drugs. and smokes in this time period. 20' 30's 40's 50's and so on. The Musicians, didn't really know what to say I guess. I think in the reading of Bix Biederbecke he had Learning difficulties. Probably Dyslexia. Sean

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

"yer followers would cling to you hang around just to meet you some threw roses at your feet and watched you pass out on the street, Drunken Angel"

[@goshlikkrudbahr5109]

When Louis shuts down the annoying interviewer's question about Frank Trumbauer.

[@TheHeater90]

What was so bad about that question? It was a simple question: did he do anything in that period with Frankie Trumbauer? And I don't think Louis' answer was a shut down, it was a simple answer. "I didn't do anything with Frankie, but I got all the records with him and Bix." Simple question - simple, honest answer. The follow up about Henry Allen doing something with them didn't interest Louis because he wasn't involved in those sessions so he can't speak to it.

[@rma3_3_3]

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[@t.tocsmaillup8685]

Bix was 28 according to history he died in 31

[@brucekuehn4031]

The dates for Bix that I’ve seen put his death at age 28. By most accounts, he wasn’t much good the last couple of years. That’s a LOT of drinking! He must have been totally addicted to it with maybe some other psych problems contributing.

[@ChristopherBix2]

Totally uninformed conjecture. People act like Bix was the only person who drank to excess, when in fact, it was prohibition and almost everyone did. Bing Crosby was in the same band with Bix and he's stated that Bix didn't drink more than any of the rest of them.

[@brucekuehn4031]

In 1929, Bix went back home to Davenport, Iowa and his parents helped get him into a treatment institute for alcoholism in Illinois where he spent a little over a month. He died in 1931.

[@geoffthomson1686]

Not to give credit to Sarah Lane for her dancing input to the film is insulting, and deceptive on the part of the film-makers, plain and simple.

[@danielduggan5495]

If you learn anything from this- stop creating start listening and go to your Doctors x

[@ChristopherBix2]

So... you can't keep creating and go to the doctor both?