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, Frankie Trumbauer, and Sunny Clapp.

The 1975 Broadway album It Sounds Like Bix presented a “collection of sixteen tantalizing sides, all with varying degrees of possibility as Bix items.” Some may indeed be Bix’s work, such as Lou Raderman’s Ol’ Man River and Why Do I Love You? The remaining ones are most likely not Bix items, but they are still good recordings.

The Italian label Raretone issued the album “Bix – To Be or Not To Be” in 1972. I  have not been able to obtain a copy of this album. However, I was given a copy of the contents by Lino Patruno. The sides here are from recordings by the Jean Goldkette orchestra, The Five Birmingham Babies, Bill Hawley, Peggy Hill, Paul Whiteman, and the Carolina Dandies.