Deep Down South BIX BEIDERBECKE The very mention of the name Bix Beiderbecke is usually enough to make jazz enthusiasts genuflect, metaphorically, because it signifies an artist so entirely on his own, more than half a century after his death at the age of twenty-eight on August 6, 1931, just as he was in that short life. His recording career spanned the years from February 18, 1924, when he first recorded with a small band of enthusiastic, but not otherwise particularly distinguished young men known as the Wolverine Orchestra, to September 15, 1930, when he was in the personnel of a band recruited for recording by his old friend and lifelong admirer, composer Hoagy Carmichael. In those six and a half years, a legend was born, and when that genius perished with Bix's death, the legend continued. This album gives us twenty musical reasons why.