Audio Tapes – Interviews of People Who Knew Bix

Audio Tapes – Interviews of People Who Knew Bix The Michigan State University Voice Library possesses a number of sound tape reels of interviews of individuals who knew Bix Beiderbecke personally. In the interviews, the various individuals talk about their personal knowledge of Bix and relate their experiences and/ or some anecdote of interest. The […]

Audio Tapes – BIX: A Radio Program From Miami University – Part 2

BIX: A Radio Program From Miami University – Part 2     Jim Grover’s Creative Thesis In May 1971, James Robert Grover submitted “A Creative Aural History Thesis” to the Department of Speech of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. The title of the […]

Audio Tapes – BIX: A Radio Program From Miami University – Part 1

BIX: A Radio Program From Miami University – Part 1   In May 1971, James Robert Grover submitted “A Creative Aural History Thesis” to the Department of Speech of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. The title of the thesis is “A Series of Nineteen […]

Audio Tapes

Audio Tapes BIX: A Radio Program From Miami University Interviews of People Who Knew Bix Audio of Interview of Hoagy Carmichael Peter Lesley’s Close-up on Bix Beiderbecke An Interview of Jimmy McPartland An Interview of Norman Payne by Nick Dellow An Interview of Bill Rank and Gene Prendergast An Interview of Irving Brodsky An Interview […]

Photo Gallery – Miscellaneous

Photo Gallery – Miscellaneous     WJR Radio Guide, 1928 or 1929 – S.H From Wikipedia: WJR began as WCX on May 4, 1922, owned by the Detroit Free Press newspaper, operating at 580 kHz. It shared this frequency with WWJ-AM, another station owned by the Detroit News newspaper. In 1925, WCX was bought by […]

Photo Gallery – Joe Venuti

Photo Gallery – Joe Venuti     Three photographs of Joe Venuti – E.B. and J-P.L. Joe Venuti was the greatest jazz violinist ever. His duets with Eddie Lang introduced a new way to play jazz. He was inventive, creative, delicate, rhythmic, he swung like mad. He made hundreds of recordings in the 20s and […]

Photo Gallery – Frank Trumbauer

Photo Gallery – Frank Trumbauer     Ad for Parlophone Records by Frank Trumbauer and by Miff Mole – F.T. Fredrik writes, “This scan was made from the book “The world of Jazz in Printed Ephemera and Collectibles” by Jim Godbolt (London, 1990). Originally the ad was published in the May, 1928 issue of Melody […]