Analysis of Some Recordings: Is It Bix Or Not? – Baby Won’t You Please Come Home

Baby Won’t You Please Come Home This side was recorded on April 17, 1929, by Frank Trumbauer and his Orchestra. Both Bix and Andy Secrest were present. This is OKeh 41286, re-released in 1947 in the Columbia 78 rpm album ” Bix and Tram”, A Hot Jazz Classic C-144. In the liners for the album […]

Analysis of Some Recordings: Is It Bix Or Not? – Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Chapter VII, entitled “The Legend“, of “The Bix Bands, a Bix Beiderbecke disco-biography” by Castelli, Kaleveld, and Pusateri provides “a number of possible Bix records”. Most, if not all of these, are apocryphal Bix sides. They include recordings by Marion McKay, Joe Candullo, the California Ramblers, Jean Goldkette, Bill Hawley, Peggy Hill, Paul Whiteman, […]