Remembering Bix simon b. rhymin’ Take a trip you'll never

Take a trip you'll never take: This is what books are for

and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness

We must destroy it

Many decades later

gained a little too much in the middle

Remembering Bix simon b. rhymin’ Take a trip you'll neverAs 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