Day: January 6, 2025

Museums

The Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection The museum is located in New Orleans. The collection includes three items related to Bix: a cornet that he

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Bix’s Musical Genius

What places Bix apart from – and above – most jazz musicians? What is therein Bix’s cornet playing that elicits in fans such admiration and

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Video Tapes

At the Jazz Band Ball Yazoo 514. This videotape represents a transcription of original film masters from 1925 to 1933. It includes clips of the

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Scholarly Dissertations

Dissertation and other scholarly works   The Bix Beiderbecke Story: The Jazz Musician in Legend, Fiction, and Fact. A Study of the Images of Jazz

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Biographies of Bix

“Bugles for Beiderbecke” by Charles Wareing and George Garlick. Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, London, 1958. Description: 333 p.; one photograph; one poem (Trumpeter, by Herbert

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Chapters in books

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND RELATED BOOKS   “Twelve Lives in Jazz” by Duncan Schiedt Delta Editrice, Parma, Italy, 1996. Description: oversize book; 176 pages; hundreds

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Miscellaneous

A Television Series In 1984, British television broadcast a very successful series entitled “The Beiderbecke Affair”. The main characters are two teachers, one teaches woodwork

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A Stamp For Bix in 2003

A First Day Cover For Bix According to the American First Day Cover Society, http://www.afdcs.org/, “A First Day Cover (FDC) is an envelope or card

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Bix Vigil – 2002

Bix Vigil – 2002 This was a great success. There were over 30 people, Bix fans, officials from local historical and civic societies, and neighbors.

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Bix Vigil – 2003

Bix Vigil – 2003 The 2003 Bix vigil in Sunnyside, NY was the most successful. On August 6, 2000, only two persons attended the vigil:

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