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April 5, 2011.  Lately I've been revisiting the music of Bix Beiderbecke.  A few years back I picked up the boxed set by Mosaic Records featuring Bix and for the past couple weeks I've been transcribing some solos and playing along.  The remastered sound on Mosaic is, as usual, fantastic though I can only wonder what he sounded like live.

Below if a four bar intro that Bix played on the tune "Trumbology."  It was recorded on February 4, 1927 by "Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra with Bix and Lang."  The tempo is about quarter note = 188.  I enjoy running this in all twelve keys.  I'm assuming Bix improvised this, if not I may be hearing from the Trumbauer estate.