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While he was away, Whiteman famously kept a chair empty in Beiderbecke's honor.

But when he returned to New York at the end of January 1930, the renowned soloist did not rejoin Whiteman and performed only sparingly.

On his last recording session, in New York, on September 15, 1930, Beiderbecke played on the original recording of Hoagy Carmichael's new song, " Georgia on My Mind ", with Carmichael doing the vocal, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet and alto saxophone, Jack Teagarden on trombone, and Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone.

The song would go on to become a jazz and popular music standard.