This is a sequel to the immediately preceding post.
It involves the same vantage point, on the same morning, but this post’s image (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken 13 minutes later, at 7.03 am, with a longer lens. (400mm, effectively)
Again, its musical complement is the work of a troubled genius who died young.
Click here to discover more about the so-called Walpole Wilderness and its various national parks.
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Arguably, Bix Beiderbecke was jazz’s first great white musician; even Louis Armstrong admired Bix.
Bix was also a self-destructive alcoholic – just 28 when he died, in 1931.
Primarily, Bix was a masterful improvising player of the cornet, known for his singular tone.
He also played piano, and Bix composed several impressionistic pieces for piano, solo.
Bix recorded just one of them.
In a Mist is Bix’s one oft-covered composition; some regard his own 1927 version as definitive, whilst others rate the composition highly, but not its original recording.
Click this to discover more about Bix, to hear his cornet artistry, and to hear the original version of In a Mist, plus two very different elaborations thereon.
Nice.