This is from a Reynolds catalog that was in a box of sheet music I bought years ago. Yesterday I finally looked through it and found this! Pat was a neighbor of Bix's at the 44th Hotel in New York. Bix borrowed his piano and composed his last pieces on it. The Teagarden Boys are in it as well. No date, but it must be around 1960.
I was very lucky to spend a whole day with Charlie Teagarden, just talking about Bix. A great guy and one of the best musicians of his time!
"Great Day" & Amelia Earhart. Both crashed &ended up lost. This one solo almost ruined Andy Secrest's career. At one of the Princetondates Bix played, that recording was the topic of the day. Why was that one take issued? Were there no others? This was the best one? There has to be more to this story.This recording was a sore spot with the Whiteman musicians for decades! Poor Andy.
Eddie Condon called this "Another close call for Bix." He was asked to be in it too.
Gee, I wonder who these guys are trying to sound like?
I understand that someone is planning to use some of the research that I've been putting on this site for the fans of Bix- for free, in his book for you to buy. I'm sure he'll claim it as his own. They always do. I have a few surprises myself for them! Banished from Davenport! Bah!
A nice clipping from Paul Mertz. Jimmy Dorsey was 19 and looks 15. Kinda looks a little bit like Bix, doesn't he?
A Jean Goldkette performance - 1955
Two more Jean Goldkette concerts from 1955 & 1956. Check out his song list! Chopin, Boogie Woogie, Flight Of The Bumble Bee, DeBussy, Ravel, Hoagy. Go, Jean, Go! What? No "In A Mist"?
It's still hard to imagine that Steve Brown was 13 years older than Bix! My late pal George Finola, had Steve's trunk. He had it for some time when one day he noticed it had a kind of falsebottom that he had missed. He opened itup and founda broken bow.
The cause of Adrian Rollini's death has been a puzzle for years. One popular story was that he owed the mob, and they slammed his ankle in his car door, almost severing his foot. This account just stinks! He went to the hospital with a fracture and dies from pneumonia and liver trouble? And they found "nothing at odds" with this story? Right.
I never could understand why people go to battle over Bix's middle name! I wouldn't care if it was Osama. He was Bix Beiderbecke, and there hasn't been anyone like him since. Isn't that enough? What are you looking for? And why? Endof story!
Well! If it isn't good old Eddie Sheasby! The Goldkette trunk of arrangements were missing after this engagement. Some said he took them. Others said he had to haul ass out of town so fast that he just left them. The law had come to arrest him for various reasons.
Bix really did do most of the Goldkette arranging. The ideas came from Bix, Bill Challis wrote them down and scored them for the band. This is from March 1927. Bix joined Whitemanat the end of Oct. 1927.
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