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The Bix Beiderbecke Centennial All-Stars: Celebrating Bix!

Read "Celebrating Bix!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, who considered himself a failure and died (primarily from alcohol abuse) in 1931 at age twenty-eight, would no doubt have been astonished to learn that a group of world- class musicians was assembling to record an album celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his birth. But if Bix was unable to recognize his own genius, others were--and now, seventy-two years onward, he rests comfortably in the pantheon raised to honor such legendary jazz pioneers as Louis Armstrong, King ...

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Matt Munisteri & Brock Mumford: Love Story

Read "Love Story" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 4, 2003

What an engaging set of songs, and in its somewhat retro way, a brash undertaking. At a time when record sales are dominated by bad rap/hip-hop--crude bellicose karaoke performed by talentless trolls-- this Love Story by Matt Munisteri (an “M&M" Eminem with talent, finesse and class) and Brock Mumford is a ninety degree against the grain delight.Relaxed, off-the-cuff, old timey, swinging... Get a load of the instrumental line-up: bass/drums with accordion, Munisteri's guitar (or banjo or mandolin) and ...