3 Bix Beiderbecke:По версии газеты Telegraph. (http://www.telegraph.co.u> kculture/music/6515486/1> 00-Best-Jazz-Recordings.h tml) 1 King Oliver: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set (1923-24) Retrieval, 12.72, RRP 14.99 Listen through the dim and distant acoustic sound – the first great series of jazz recordings – and you will encounter the intricate and joyous sound of New Orleans at its absolute peak. 2 Bessie Smith: Complete Recordings (Frog Vols 1-8 1923-33), deleted Bessie Smith’s recording of the Twenties – accompanied by such musicians as Louis Armstrong, James P Johnson and the sweet-toned trumpeter Joe Smith – have a matchless stateliness of delivery and monumental vocal strength. 3 Bix Beiderbecke: Bix Tram (JSP 1926-29) 16.62, RRP 17.99 Beiderbecke was the doomed Scott Fitzgerald of music. But before the whisky killed him, he introduced a new mood into jazz – romantic, wistful – on these performances with the saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer.
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