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Bix in 2024

Will the real Bix please stand up?

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Matthew Lavelle
Jul 28, 2024
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Back when I was working on a masters in jazz history at Rutgers I had a semester studying with Dr. Kwami Coleman. I wrote a paper on Bix Beiderbecke, having always questioned the accepted narrative of his life. I wasn’t then, and I’m still not out to cancel Bix. I received an A on the paper, but the blocks came when I sent it out to jazz journals, where…

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