Beiderbecke
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Born in 1903, Bix Beiderbecke didn’t live to be 30, but he made an impression on jazz that is still felt today.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021
Most prominently through the San Antonio-based Jim Cullum Jazz Band, he devoted his career to resurrecting music popularized by the likes of Beiderbecke, Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2019
Wundram championed pothole repairs, downtown Davenport renovation, circuses that came to down and the memory of jazz great Bix Beiderbecke.
From Washington Times • May 7, 2018
Here’s Nora, Tom-Tom’s girlfriend, a bohemian artist played by Ann Schuyler, twenty-five, entering a middle-class living room: “Beethoven on the bed, Beiderbecke in the bathroom, Brubeck on the bread box. Let me out!”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
Can you say “Bix Beiderbecke biopic” three times fast?
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2014
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