Remembering Bix simon b. rhymin’ gained a little too much

gained a little too much in the middle

and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness

We must destroy it

One of the last secrets of World War II is why the Germans failed to build an atomic bomb

Many decades later

Remembering Bix simon b. rhymin’ gained a little too muchAs Nat Hentoff says, "Hearing Bix for the first time was like waking up to the first day of spring." Bix has always inspired such acclaim, for he was an unmatched master of the cornet. Ralph Berton was privileged enough to have been a fan and younger brother of Bix's drummer just as Beiderbecke's genius was flowering, before he died in 1931 at age twenty eight. Listening from behind the piano, tagging along to honky tonks and jam sessions, Berton