Paul Whiteman
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Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American jazz bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.
Whiteman in a 1939 publicity photo
Whiteman and his orchestra, 1921
The members of Whiteman's Orchestra in 1930
A frame from the trailer for the film Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Bix Beiderbecke
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Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyri
Paul Whiteman
…versatile show that included everything from pop tunes and waltzes to semi-classical works and jazz. ... Many of his recordings (particularly those with Bix Beiderbecke) have been reissued numerous times and are more rewarding than his detractors would lead one to believe." In his autobiography, Duke Ellington declared…
Beiderbecke c. 1924
The Wolverines with Beiderbecke at Doyle's Academy of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1924
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial in LeClaire Park, Davenport, Iowa
Bix Beiderbecke grave