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PHIL EVANS COLLECTION
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This is from a Reynolds catalog that was in a box
of sheet music I bought years ago. Yesterday I
finally looked through it and found this! Pat was a
neighbor of Bix's at the 44th Hotel in New York. Bix
borrowed his piano and composed his last pieces
on it. The Teagarden Boys are in it as well. No
date, but it must be around 1960.
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"Great Day" & Amelia Earhart. Both crashed &
ended up lost. This one solo almost ruined
Andy Secrest's career. At one of the Princeton
dates Bix played, that recording was the
topic of the day. Why was that one take
issued? Were there no others? This was the
best one? There has to be more to this story.
This recording was a sore spot with the
Whiteman musicians for decades! Poor Andy.
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Eddie Condon called this "Another close
call for Bix." He was asked to be in it too.
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A nice clipping from Paul Mertz. Jimmy
Dorsey was 19 and looks 15. Kinda looks
a little bit like Bix, doesn't he?
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A Jean Goldkette performance - 1955
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Two more Jean Goldkette concerts from
1955 & 1956. Check out his song list! Chopin,
Boogie Woogie, Flight Of The Bumble Bee, DeBussy,
Ravel, Hoagy. Go, Jean, Go! What? No "In A Mist"?
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It's still hard to imagine that Steve
Brown was 13 years older than Bix! My
late pal George Finola, had Steve's
trunk. He had it for some time when one
day he noticed it had a kind of false
bottom that he had missed. He opened it
up and found a broken bow.
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The cause of Adrian Rollini's death has
been a puzzle for years. One popular
story was that he owed the mob, and
they slammed his ankle in his car door,
almost severing his foot. This account
just stinks! He went to the hospital with
a fracture and dies from pneumonia
and liver trouble? And they found
"nothing at odds" with this story? Right.
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I never could understand why people go to battle over Bix's
middle name! I wouldn't care if it was Osama. He was Bix
Beiderbecke, and there hasn't been anyone like him since. End
of story!
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Well! If it isn't good old Eddie Sheasby! The
Goldkette trunk of arrangements were missing
after this engagement. Some said he took them.
Others said he had to haul ass out of town so fast
that he just left them. The law had come to arrest
him for various reasons.
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Bix really did do most of the
Goldkette arranging. The ideas
came from Bix, Bill Challis
wrote them down and scored
them for the band. This is from
March 1927. Bix joined Whiteman
at the end of Oct. 1927.
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AND FROM THE DETROIT ATHLETIC
CLUB WE ARE PROUD TO BRING BACK....
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Hello boys! We are the Nymphs of the Detroit Athletic
Club. And nothing makes us Nymphier than a good Kazoo
Lips CD. Why just look at five of the girls here. They got
SO excited over the latest Kazoo Lips release that they
forgot to put on their stockings before getting into the
pool! Disgusting. They are going to give all of us nymphs a
bad name....
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