Anyway...as I was saying, every member was...HEY! And isn't that...? Tram must have had a tough time keeping a straight face in the sax section!
Paul Whiteman only hired only the top men for his band. Each member was the best on his instrument, and...Hey! Isn't that....nah! It couldn't be.
DID YOU KNOW? Do you remember in "Man & Legend" the listings of the songs played on the Old Gold broadcasts, and who took the solos on those tunes they played? Sorry to say, they are useless... Warren Scholl carefully listened to each broadcast, writing down as much information as he could, what instrument was soloing on each song and where. He let Phil Evans use his original notes for "Man & Legend". Many years later, on top of everything else that Mr. Sudhalter did to his book, Phil discovered that R.S. had changed Warrens original broadcast notes over 50 TIMES in the book! Why? And what did he hope to gain by doing that? I have no idea. So a very valuable source of information about the Old Gold Show had been compromised, as well as a great many other details of Bix's life by R.S. I do have Warrens original notes here...somewhere! When I come across them again, I'll scan them and put them on a page here. I can see what he had to gain for himself with everything else he did to the 1974 book, and to Bix's life. But to change Warren's Old Gold notes? We can only wonder why. At least 70% of the information in "Man & Legend" had been changed when the book was published, and some stories were total fabrications. That being said however, the man was a very talented writer! No argument there. It was what he wrote that became the problem. Everyone who was associated with the 1974 book, is now gone. It's time to move on. However as far as the Bix research is concerned, I can promise you this, due to Phil Evan's endless quest for information on Bix...the best is yet to come!
This postcard was sent home by Bix on the way to California to film "King Of Jazz". This was a horrible time for Bix. He was having a hard time being cooped up on the train all day long with nothing to do. No piano around either. So he drank. Then came the news that his best pal, Don Murray had died in L.A. By now, Bix was in very rough shape, you can tell that by his writing. He may have not even known where he was. He says here that they've just crossed the desert into California. The postcard was mailed from Colorado.
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, one of the greatest teams in the history of Jazz. As young as Eddie was at the time of his death, the amount of recordings he left us, is no less than staggering! A True Master!
Here's a never seen before photo of Joe & Eddie taken just after car accident that killed Mario Perry and mangled Joe's bowing arm. I had to work on this photo for some time to get this much out of it. I wonder if a certain writer is going to steal this for his book, too? Shall I type it up for you as well? Loser.
Ah! Those good old "Devil May Care Days"!
BEN BURNEY?
<--- Al Rinker talks frankly about his sister, Mildred Bailey. He also throws in a beautiful "off the cuff" description of Bix's personality that speaks volumes!
Paul looks more like Charlie Chan in this one.
IS EVERYBODY HAP...Oops! Wrong band....
I wonder if Bix cut his own hair?
Pops & W.C. Fields! Put them together and what have you got? Poppyfields? Yeah, that's what you give someone with a cough, a carton of cigarettes!
Fight back against "Bad Jazz" and buy Kazoo Lips CD's. It's your passport to better music. And the Jazz Police will never hold you, once you show them a Kazoo Lips CD. And a huge gun.
