Bix Beiderbecke: Books and Videos

Biographical fiction

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

A collection of early film clips (1925-1933), featuring song, dance, and instrumental performances of some of the giants of the Jazz Age, including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman, the Dorsey Brothers, and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Features clips of Bessie Smith's only screen performance, Bix Beiderbecke's sole appearance in a sound film, and an early Lee DeForest sound film of Ben Bernie's orchestra in which Jack Pettis plays what is probably the first jazz solo on film.

"It concerns what happened to Brittany Ross and her friends on a trip down the Mississippi River from Dubuque to Davenport to hear the Bix Beiderbecke Festival..." --back cover. Sequel to the author's A river to hide by.

A biography of the cornet player from Davenport, Iowa, who helped raise jazz to a respected musical form and who was inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.

A series of vignettes about Bix Beiderbecke's life and the time he spent and the people he knew in Davenport

A biography of the cornet player from Davenport, Iowa, who helped raise jazz to a respected musical form and who was inducted into the International Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997.

Family group sheets

1 videocassette (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 1/2 in.

This fascinating documentary chronicles the life and career of legendary musician Leon Bix Beiderbecke, from his early beginnings as a child prodigy to his tragic death at age 28.

Booklet on the making of the movie Bix: an interpretation of a legend.

1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

A film based on the life of jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke.

"Blue river" : Bix Beiderbecke and Jess Stacy on the Mississippi