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3 ott 2021 · Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was a popular white American orchestral leader. He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start as a classical violinist and violist, Whiteman then led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became locally popular in San Francisco, California in 1918.
Bix Beiderbecke. Bix Beiderbecke, vero nome Leon Bix Beiderbecke ( Davenport, 10 marzo 1903 – New York, 6 agosto 1931 ), è stato un trombettista, compositore e cornettista statunitense . Tra i migliori trombettisti degli anni venti e uno dei più illustri esponenti del “ jazz bianco”, vantava un timbro delicato e particolare ed elevate ...
12143-B. -. -. * Riverside RLP 12-127 Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone - On The Road Jazz: Somewhere East Of Davenport. * Riverside (Du) RM 8810 The Legendary Bix Beiderbecke 1924-1925. * Milestone M-47019 Bix Beiderbecke And The Chicago Cornets 1974. * Gennett 5654; Session 6 Bix Beiderbecke - Toddlin' Blues / Davenport Blues.
5 apr 2016 · SUPPORT THE POST. The most popular band in the U.S. during the 1920s was Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. Though Whiteman was known during his time as the “King of Jazz,” he is a controversial figure to jazz historians today. One reason is because his orchestra for the most part didn’t play what today we think of as real jazz.
As discussed under Bing Crosby's Road to Hollywood, Paul Whiteman and the members of his orchestra, including Bix, went to Hollywood to film The King of Jazz for Universal Studios. From June 1929 to late August 1929, the orchestra hung around giving concerts and radio broadcasts (Old Gold on the CBS network from KMTR) and waiting for an agreement to be reached about the film script.
A guide to Paul Whiteman: biography, discography, reviews, ratings. Paul Whiteman (1890), a former violinist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, who organized a band in 1919 in San Francisco band and moved to New York in 1920, was the epitome of white musicians aping the new genre and trying to cash in on it, mixing pop vocalists such as Bing Crosby (1926) with white virtuoso ...
Although revisionist historians would later claim that Whiteman's wide mixture of repertoire (much of it outside of jazz) drove Beiderbecke to drink, he actually enjoyed the prestige of playing with the most popular band of the decade. Beiderbecke's favorite personal solo was his written-out part on George Gershwin's "Concerto in F."
