Beiderbecke and Trumbauer both joined Goldkette in 1926.

Indeed, Beiderbecke had met Hardy and the clarinetist Leon Roppolo in Davenport in 1921 when the two joined a local band and played in town for three months.

When Trumbauer organized a band for an extended run at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis, Beiderbecke joined him.

Paul Whiteman hoped to snatch up Goldkette's best musicians for his traveling orchestra, but Beiderbecke, Trumbauer, Murray, Rank, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Chauncey Morehouse, and Frank Signorelli instead joined the bass saxophone player Adrian Rollini at the Club New Yorker.

" After leaving Goldkette, he and Beiderbecke worked briefly in Adrian Rollini's band, then joined Paul Whiteman in 1927.

Shortly after, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer also joined the band, making it one of the stellar ensembles of the day.

He joined the show Days of our Lives in 1997 in the recurring role of Bart Beiderbecke.

* Bix Beiderbecke with the Wolverines or the Wolverine Orchestra

The following year, Trumbauer and Beiderbecke left Detroit to join the best-known and most prestigious dance orchestra in the country: the New York-based Paul Whiteman Orchestra.

; As Bix Beiderbecke and His Orchestra:

In 1977, the ODJB classic " Singin ' the Blues ", co-written by ODJB pianist J. Russel Robinson, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a landmark 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar, as Okeh 40772-B, recorded on February 4, 1927.

Among the artists who have recorded " Tiger Rag " are Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Orchestra, Bix Beiderbecke, Les Paul, Art Tatum, The Mills Brothers in a no.

In 1977, Robinson's composition " Singin ' the Blues " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet as Okeh 40772-B.

Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.

Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians.

He briefly replaced Bix Beiderbecke in the Wolverines Orchestra, and Nick LaRocca in the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

On February 4, 1927, Lang featured in the recording of " Singin ' the Blues " by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet.

In 1977, Lang's recording of " Singin ' the Blues " with Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the best known was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924 – 1929, which included, at various times, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Chauncey Morehouse, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Rank, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Steve Brown, Joe Venuti, and arranger Robert Ginzler among others.

They rereleased recordings by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded for Columbia and Brunswick, Benny Goodman, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, and Paul Whiteman.

Gene Austin's compositions included " When My Sugar Walks Down the Street ", recorded by Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, The Ink Spots, Hot Lips Page, Johnny Mathis, The Four Freshmen, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols ' Five Pennies, Ella Fitzgerald, Sy Oliver, and the Wolverines Orchestra ; " How Come You Do Me Like You Do?

* 1928 Ramona ( m. Mabel Wayne r. Whispering Jack Smith, Paul Whiteman Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke, and Gene Austin )

Frankie Trumbauer recruited Bix Beiderbecke for Jean Goldkette's Victor Recording Orchestra, of which he became musical director.

*" Ol ' Man River " ( From " Show Boat ") recorded with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra on January 11, 1928 in New York and released as Victor 21218-A and Victor 25249 with Bing Crosby on vocals and Bix Beiderbecke on cornet.

" Singin ' the Blues ", released by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar in 1927 as Okeh 40772-B, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1977.

* Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke and Pee Wee Russell: http :// www. redhotjazz. com / ftoinfo. html

* The Wolverines or Wolverines Orchestra, an American jazz band led by Bix Beiderbecke

The week had been quite hot, making sleep difficult, and late into the evenings, Beiderbecke had played piano, both to the annoyance and to the delight of his neighbors.

" Solo in Sunnyside: Frank Gray travels through Queens, New York, in search of the late Bix Beiderbecke ".

In the late 1920s he recorded with such notable bandleaders and sidemen as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Jimmy McPartland, Mezz Mezzrow, Glenn Miller, and Eddie Condon.

He is also remembered for his musical collaborations with Bix Beiderbecke, a relationship that produced some of the finest and most innovative jazz records of the late 1920s.

In the late 1920s he cut several popular sides with Beiderbecke, including the legendary " Singin ' the Blues.

He had a separate contract with OKeh Records from 1927 through 1930, he recorded some of the most legendary small group Jazz recordings of the era, usually including Beiderbecke until the April 30, 1929 session.

From these records Bix Beiderbecke first learned to love hot jazz ; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca's horn lines.

Beiderbecke made his first recordings 21 months before Armstrong recorded as a leader with the Hot Five.

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.

Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong were among jazz's first soloists.

Jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke recorded nine compositions by ODJB in various bands and orchestras from 1924 to 1930: " Fidgety Feet ", his first recording in 1924, " Tiger Rag ", " Sensation ", " Lazy Daddy ", " Ostrich Walk ", " Clarinet Marmalade ", " Singin ' the Blues " with Frankie Trumbauer and Eddie Lang, " Margie ", and " At The Jazz Band Ball ".

The young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( which was not in fact “ original ,” but was the first “ jazz ” band to record ), and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on the young cornet player.

He began to compose songs, " Washboard Blues " and " Boneyard Shuffle " for Curtis Hitch, and also " Riverboat Shuffle ", recorded by Beiderbecke, which became a staple of jazz and Carmichael ’ s first recorded song.

He made his first recordings in 1927, with a band under the leadership of banjoist Eddie Condon and Red McKenzie: along with other recordings beginning in 1924 by musicians known in the " Chicago " scene such as Bix Beiderbecke, these sides are examples of " Chicago Style " jazz.

His first recording session took place where trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke made his legendary recordings — in Richmond, Indiana, at the Gennett Studios — both during early 1924.

It is the first part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy with the two sequel series being The Beiderbecke Tapes ( 1987 ) and The Beiderbecke Connection ( 1988 ).

His major recordings included " Krazy Kat ", " Red Hot ", " Plantation Moods ", " Trumbology ", " Tailspin ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang, and the first hit recording of " Georgia On My Mind " in 1931.