In A Mist

In A Mist The Origin of the Music; The OKeh File Card of  “In A Mist”; The Sheet Music of “In A Mist”; Other Sources of the Sheet Music of “In A Mist”; The Origin of the Title; Bix’s Public Performance of “In A Mist”; In A Mist of Bixology? The Composition; Commentaries (under construction); […]

Miscellaneous Albums Related to Bix

Miscellaneous Albums Related to Bix     Bill Challis’ The Goldkette Project Circle CLP-118. Recorded in December of 1986 by Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks featuring, among others, Tom Pletcher, Spiegle Willcox, and Bob Wilber, this album represents an authentic recreation of the Goldkette sound using original arrangements by Bill Challis. Some of the songs in […]

Complete Compilations of Bix’s Recordings

Complete Compilations of Bix’s Recordings     Joker This is the first attempt to transcribe all of Bix’s 78 rpm recordings in chronological order, including alternate takes. The set, entitled “Bixology, Bix Beiderbecke 1924-1930” consists of 14 LPs and was produced by International Joker in Italy and distributed by Saar Srl of Milan. The individual records […]

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, […]

Analysis of Some Recordings: Is It Bix Or Not? – Cradle Of Love

Cradle of Love On January 24, 1929, in Chicago, IL, Ray Miller and his Orchestra recorded three sides. One of these was Cradle of Love. Brad Kay, a musician from Los Angeles, Bixophile, and record collector, made a presentation about this recording on March 12, 1999, at the Tribute to Bix in Libertyville, IL. Brad’s presentation, […]

Analysis of Some Recordings: Is It Bix Or Not? – Waiting At the End of the Road

Waiting At the End of the Road This recording, made by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on September 13, 1929, has almost always been viewed as Bix’s last with Paul. It is included in the Masters of Jazz and Bixology sets, in Brian Rust’s Jazz Records discography, and in Sudhalter and Evans. Marc Richard in the Masters […]

Analysis of Some Recordings: Is It Bix Or Not? – One Night In Havana

One Night in Havana This recording was made by Hoagy Carmichael and his Orchestra on September 15, 1930, the day of Bix’s last appearance on wax. This recording appears in Rust’s discography and in the Sunbeam set including Bix. Sudhalter and Evans, and Evans and Evans specifically state that Bix did not play in this […]

Analysis of Some Recordings: Is It Bix Or Not? – Doo-Wacka-Doo

Doo-Wacka-Doo This recording by Marion McKay’s Orchestra for Gennett on December 17, 1924, is discussed in detail by Warren K. Plath in the International Association of Jazz Records Collectors Journal, volume 8, no. 2, p. 7, 1972. Apparently, this recording surfaced for public notice when the Italian label Raretone issued the album “Bix – To […]

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