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          Bix Beiderbecke is an iconic jazz figure, one of the greatest soloists of his era, and a figure of myth -- a myth spread widely by the hit biopic "Young....

          Bix (film)

          1991 film

          Bix is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati and starring Bryant Weeks.

          The plot is about the final years of cornet player Bix Beiderbecke.

          On the surface, this documentary on the life of a great and innovative s jazz musician, Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, is a very standard one.

        1. Synopsis.
        2. Bix Beiderbecke is an iconic jazz figure, one of the greatest soloists of his era, and a figure of myth -- a myth spread widely by the hit biopic "Young.
        3. The originality of Bix's style has roots in New Orleans jazz and such classical composers as Debussy and Ravel, and this biography traces the evolution of these.
        4. Biopic of famous jazz drummer, Gene Krupa, who becomes a sensation but cannot handle success and life in the fast lane and ends-up broke.

          5. It was an Official Selection premiering at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

          Plot

          Bryant Weeks plays American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke in an account of his life. The film focuses on his conflicts with his family and his relations with the prominent jazz musicians of the 1920s, such as Hoagy Carmichael, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Russell, Don Murray, and Paul Whiteman.

          Mark Sovel plays his friend and collaborator, saxophonist and bandleader Frankie Trumbauer.

          The film opens in October 1931 in New York City, two months after the death of Bix Beiderbecke. His brother Burnie arrives in the city to meet Liza, who was to be the future bride of the deceased brother.

          His investigations of where Bix worked led him to the Italian-American violinist Joe Venuti, the trumpeter's only true friend and ther