Beiderbecke's mother and brother took the train to New York and brought his body home to Davenport.

The headmaster informed Beiderbecke's parents by letter that following his expulsion school officials confirmed that Beiderbecke " was drinking himself and was responsible, in part at least, in having liquor brought into the School.

Paul Mares of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings insisted that Beiderbecke's chief influence was the New Orleans cornetist Emmett Hardy, who died in 1925 at the age of 23.

In 2003, to mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society and other community organizations, spearheaded by Paul Maringelli and The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee, erected a plaque in Beiderbecke's honor at the apartment building in which he died in Queens.

Carmichael appeared as an actor in a total of 14 motion pictures, always performing at least one of his songs, including Young Man with a Horn ( based on friend Bix Beiderbecke's life ) with Bacall and Kirk Douglas, and multi-Academy Award winner The Best Years of Our Lives with Myrna Loy and Fredric March ), in which he teaches a disabled veteran with metal prostheses to play " Chop Sticks ".

This whole-tone scale has appeared occasionally and sporadically in jazz at least since Bix Beiderbecke's impressionistic piano piece In a Mist.

" Richard Hadlock describes Beiderbecke's contribution to " Jazz Me Blues " as " an ordered solo that seems more inspired by clarinetists Larry Shields of the ODJB and Leon Roppolo of the NORK than by other trumpet players.

A few stints in rehabilitation centers, as well as the support of Whiteman and the Beiderbecke family in Davenport, did not check Beiderbecke's decline in health.

Beiderbecke apparently spent time with them, but the degree to which Hardy's style influenced Beiderbecke's is difficult to know because Hardy never recorded.

" They were inseparable for much of the rest of Beiderbecke's career, with Trumbauer acting as a father figure to Beiderbecke.

For Beiderbecke, the downside of being with Whiteman was the relentless touring and recording schedule, exacerbated by Beiderbecke's alcoholism.

On November 30, 1928, in Cleveland, Beiderbecke suffered what Lion terms " a severe nervous crisis " and Sudhalter and Evans suggest " was in all probability an acute attack of delirium tremens ," presumably triggered by Beiderbecke's attempt to curb his alcohol intake.

The notice appeared in October 1931 and began with a bit of hyperbole and an incorrect fact, two hallmarks of much of the subsequent writing about Beiderbecke: " The announcement of Bix Beiderbecke's death plunged all jazz musicians into despair.

In 1971, on the 40th anniversary of Beiderbecke's death, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival was founded in Davenport, Iowa, to honor the musician.

Beiderbecke's music was featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by Alan Plater: The Beiderbecke Affair ( 1984 ), The Beiderbecke Tapes ( 1987 ), and The Beiderbecke Connection ( 1988 ).

The critic and musician Digby Fairweather sums up Beiderbecke's musical legacy, arguing that " with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke was the most striking of jazz's cornet ( and of course, trumpet ) fathers ; a player who first captivated his 1920s generation and after his premature death, founded a dynasty of distinguished followers beginning with Jimmy McPartland and moving on down from there.

Gioia further wonders whether the many hyperbolic and quasi-poetic descriptions of Beiderbecke ’ s style — most notably Condon's " like a girl saying yes "— may indicate that Beiderbecke's sound was muddled on recordings.

Condon, for instance, wrote of being amazed by Beiderbecke's piano playing: " All my life I had been listening to music … But I had never heard anything remotely like what Beiderbecke played.

" Jazz Me Blues " was also important because it introduced what has been called the " correlated chorus ," a method of improvising that Beiderbecke's Davenport friend Esten Spurrier attributed to both Beiderbecke and Armstrong.

On January 26, 1925, Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers set two tunes to wax: " Toddlin ' Blues ," another number by LaRocca and Shields, and Beiderbecke's own composition, " Davenport Blues.

* " Davenport Blues " – An mp3 of Beiderbecke's first recording under his own name.

Lane's piano suites and orchestral arrangements were both self-consciously American and influenced by the French Impressionists, and it is said to have greatly influenced Beiderbecke's style, especially on " In a Mist.

In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitier, Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symbol of cultural conservatism in a nation on the cusp of the rock and roll revolution.

Beiderbecke's cornet style is often described by contrasting it with Armstrong's markedly different approach.

The Whiteman period also marked a precipitous decline in Beiderbecke's health, brought on by the demand of the bandleader's relentless touring and recording schedule in combination with Beiderbecke's persistent alcoholism.

" Beiderbecke's solo on the latter suggested something new and significant in jazz, according to biographers Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans:

For instance, on February 4, 1927, Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra recorded " Trumbology ", " Clarinet Marmalade ", and " Singin ' the Blues ", all three of which featured some of Beiderbecke's best work.

However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation finally failed him: " He stood up to take his solo, but his mind went blank and nothing happened ," recalled a fellow musician, Frankie Cush.

That same year, Frederick Turner published his novel 1929, which followed the facts of Beiderbecke's life fairly closely, focusing on his summer in Hollywood and featuring appearances by Al Capone and Clara Bow.

Beiderbecke's most famous solo was on " Singin ' the Blues ", recorded February 4, 1927.

Some critics have highlighted " Jazz Me Blues ," recorded with the Wolverines on February 18, 1924, as being particularly important to understanding Beiderbecke's style.

These pieces had an influence on jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke's piano compositions.

Beiderbecke's most influential recordings date from his time with Goldkette and Whiteman, although they were generally recorded under his own name or Trumbauer's.

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

Beiderbecke's mother was the daughter of a Mississippi riverboat captain.

Until recently, biographers have largely ignored this incident in Beiderbecke's life, and Lion was the first, in 2005, to print the police blotter and affidavit associated with the arrest.

Beiderbecke's parents enrolled him in the exclusive Lake Forest Academy, north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois.

In some respects, Beiderbecke's playing was sui generis, but he nevertheless listened to and studied the music around him: from Armstrong and Joe " King " Oliver to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Goldkette recorded for the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose musical director, Eddie King, objected to Beiderbecke's hot-jazz style of soloing ; it wasn't copacetic with the commercial obligations that came with the band's recording contract.

There he also played alongside the clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, who praised Beiderbecke's ability to drive the band.

Although the band recorded numerous sides for Victor during this period, none of them showcases Beiderbecke's most famous solos.

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