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Beiderbecke's and parents
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.

Beiderbecke's and him
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.
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.
Like Green, who made particular mention of Beiderbecke's " amount of teaching ," the jazz historian Ted Gioia also has emphasized Beiderbecke's lack of formal instruction, suggesting that it caused him to adopt " an unusual, dry embouchure " and " unconventional fingerings ," which he retained for the rest of his life.

Beiderbecke's and .
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.
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.
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'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.
Beiderbecke's childhood home at Leon Bismark Beiderbecke House | 1934 Grand Avenue in Davenport, Iowa, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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.
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.
" Beiderbecke's solo on the latter suggested something new and significant in jazz, according to biographers Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans:
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.
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.
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.
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.
" They were inseparable for much of the rest of Beiderbecke's career, with Trumbauer acting as a father figure to Beiderbecke.
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.
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.
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.
While he was away, Whiteman famously kept a chair empty in Beiderbecke's honor.

parents and enrolled
After protests by parents with children enrolled in for profit kindergartens, the program was extended to children in for-profit kindergartens, but only for children enrolled in or before September 2007.
Instead of finding full-time employment after graduating, as his parents wanted, he refused to end his education and instead enrolled in college.
In September 1939, he enrolled in law school at the University of Rome to please his parents although biographer Hollis Alpert reports that " there is no record of his ever having attended a class ".
In October 1874, his parents enrolled him in a new Jesuit school called Externat de la rue de Vienne, which was still under construction for his first five years there.
Because of his parents ' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer.
When he was six, Vangelis's parents enrolled him at a specialist music school in Athens.
He lived with his parents at Downend throughout the period but began his medical career when he enrolled at Bristol Medical School on 7 October 1868.
Seeing that few students were enrolled, they returned with federal troops who threatened to arrest the Hopi parents if they refused to send their children to school.
Eckert initially enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School to study business at the encouragement of his parents, but in 1937 transferred to Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
Yet, when his family moved to Chicago in 1944, his parents met a psychiatrist and family friend whose son was enrolled in the University of Chicago ’ s humanities program for gifted students.
In 1941, his parents enrolled Jacques at the Saint-Louis College, at rue du Marais, near the Botanical Garden of Brussels.
They stayed mostly in New York City, where Rios started a lecture tour and García Lorca enrolled at Columbia University School of General Studies, funded by his parents.
Although Constable was his parents ' second son, his older brother was mentally handicapped and so John was expected to succeed his father in the business, and after a brief period at a boarding school in Lavenham, he was enrolled in a day school in Dedham.
His parents had hopes of their son becoming a lawyer like his father, so Calloway enrolled in Crane College.
These boys, usually between the ages of 10 and 12, were then taken from their parents and given to the Turkish families in the provinces to learn Turkish language and customs, and the rules of Islam ; these boys were then enrolled in Janissary training.
At the age of 16, at the urging of his parents, Haarmann enrolled in a military academy at Neu Breisach.
His parents enrolled him in classical piano lessons when he was five, and he continued in these until he chose to pursue the bass guitar instead at age twelve.
In many interviews about her childhood Diahann Carroll remembers her parents support of her and enrolled her in dance, singing and modeling classes.
Born in Italy to English parents who were both painters, he later moved to London, where he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art.
Her parents, weary of her erratic behavior, enrolled her at the Devereux Glenholme School and Devereux Manor High School.
A talented youth, he was enrolled by his parents in New York's Art Students League, where he studied for two years.
A year later, she left the college and after an agreement with her parents, Womack enrolled at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied the commercial ways of the music business.
His parents enrolled him in the Colegio de San Bernardino, to pursue religious studies, but Artigas refused to submit to the school's strict discipline.

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