The Jazz Life— Bix Beiderbecke

Not all of the early jazz musicians were born in New Orleans, with one in particular born a bit further up river…

Bix. Image: Wall Street Journal

Richard M. Sudhalter was a fine trumpet player and excellent writer, whose contribution to jazz literature is relatively restricted in subject but massive in literary quality, detail and page count, with his Bix: Man & Legend — The Life of Bix Beiderbecke (co-written with Philip R. Evans) coming in…