Because I was unable to use Bix's 1925 recording of Davenport Blues, the music accompanying this video is the beautiful duet performed by Alex Welsh...
Royal Garden Blues -- Bix Beiderbecke 1927 On October 5 1927 Bix Beiderbecke recorded one of the most important jazz recordings in its history. Royal...
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 -- August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. A native of Davenport, Iowa....
Images of Bix's journey from Hudson Lake to joining Paul Whiteman's Orchestra and the time span of late 1926 through January 9, 1928, when "There'll...