About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Joe "King" Oliver, Fats Waller, Lawrence Welk, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sidney Bechet, Burl Ives, Jimmy Durante, Wilbur Sweatman, Gene Autry, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Amanda Randolph, Big Bill Broonzy, Artie Shaw, Charlie Patton, Lonnie Johnson, Uncle Dave Macon, Homer Rodeheaver, Alberta Hunter, Cliff Carlisle, Coleman Hawkins, Gennett Records, Clarence Ashley, Guy Lombardo, Jimmy McPartland, Art Gillham, Ernest Stoneman, Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys, Arthur Collins, Thomas A. Dorsey, Frank Ferera, Memphis Jug Band, Lottie Kimbrough, Vernon Dalhart, Scrapper Blackwell, G. B. Grayson, Daddy Stovepipe, Will Shade, Joseph Samuels, Red Perkins, Vaughn De Leath, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Fess Williams, J. M. Gates, Sam Collins, Asa Martin, The Wolverines, Irving Kaufman, Aileen Stanley, Leon Roppolo, Singin' Sam, Fred Hall, Robert Carr, Viola McCoy, Carmen Mastren, The Ponce Sisters, The Red Fox Chasers, Daisy Martin, H. C. Speir, Wendell Hall, Bradley Kincaid, Josie Miles, Cleve Chaffin, Carl Fenton, Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra, Richard M. Jones, Alphonse Trent, David Miller, Edna Hicks, Johnny Stein, New Orleans Owls, Hitch's Happy Harmonists, Original New Orleans Jazz Band, Zack Whyte, Red Onion Jazz Babies. Excerpt: Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 - August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. With Louis Armstrong, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" (1927) and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, wou...
