Hoagy Carmichael remembers Bix Beiderbecke 

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From a mad keen 76yo Aussie fan GOD--" Stardust " is my very favorite tune. Hoagy is a true genius.

Wonderful interview, I'm glad it was done and it survives. Fascinating, Beiderbecke is such a mythical figure it's great to hear something real described of him by someone who actually knew him.

how unusual , honesty

Just wonderful!

this recorded interview is wonderful... thanks so much for posting it

Hoagy plays the character "Smoke" in the movie "Young Man With A Horn" which is a rare find these days, if you find it on DVD buy it.

I LOVED BIX, LOVED HOAGY!

Wonderful music by Hoagy Carmichael !

Hoagy is saying pretty much the same thing that he said throughout his life when asked about him. The 1981 documentary about Bix is a must-watch, as well as the Jean-Pierre Lion's definitive biography of Bix.

Very interesting to hear this as I was just doing some research on HC and saw this. I recently picked up two 16" studio lacquer reference disks containing some recording sessions he did for V disk. Just him playing a piano and singing. Most of the songs are just the one take but there are a couple where he did two different takes. Trying things out I suppose. I have no idea whether or not they were released but the recording quality is amazing for the period which was written on both disks in wax marker as 13th August 1945.

The 4 trumpet passage arranged like Bix would play are at 5:08 to 5:27 and 5:36 to 5:44 on this video. Thanks Nick Dellow and J. Holmes.

Great slice of musical history

When I hear "Stardust" I hear Bix's influence on Hoagy.

wow, loved this!!!

In a way sad words of Mr. Hoagy Carmichael: "Musicians ...They play together, but knowing each other is another story." Strange enough musicians not seldom have many complaints about each other and bands break up because of different opinions about many things.

I first new of Hoagie as “Cricket” from To Have and to Have Not . The beginning of a love affair with his music.

Named his son Hoagy Bix Carmichael...says heaps😉

Legend

He named his son bix

Really interesting interview. Having listened to the recording of "Old Man Harlem" at the end, the beginning of the trumpet section soli, he says was in the style of Bix, (immediately after the vocal) is a direct quote from the beginning of Bix's solo on Riverboat Shuffle (later recording). So, is Carmichael quoting Bix directly, because he said he never used Bix's ideas note for note in this interview haha? Or had Carmichael written this arrangement of Riverboat Shuffle (he was the composer) and Bix was playing Carmichael's idea? I haven't heard those notes played in any other version of Riverboat Shuffle anyway. So, Carmichael is probably contradicting himself by playing this recording! Haha!

Interesting interview - sounds like a guy who didn't put up with a lot of bs

When did this interview take place????

ホワイトマンは天才を見付けて育てる天才

any discographical info on the version of “old man harlem?”

Great arrangement of Old man Harlem, great singing all beautifully played. Did Hoagy write "Old man Harlem."

O Yea O yea . Imitated almost duplicated . Very nice

Who is the interviewer? He sounds English.

Hoagy's talent was his own. The problem with music, is the involvement of the untalented & tone deaf, music critic or music commentator. Admiring someone is not the same thing in anyway, as copying them.