Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)
Red Hot Jazz Archive
April 7, 2020
Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920’s; he was also a child of
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Redhotjazz.com was a crown jewel of the early internet. Starting in the mid ’90s it made the offline discographies and biographies of early jazz available to the online public. It also hosted thousands of audio files donated by people who were digitizing their 78 RPM record collections, making many obscure recordings available for the first time. This all started long before Youtube and even before Wikipedia was much more than an idea.
We are duplicating the content of the Red Hot Jazz Archive from a snapshot saved in Archive.org’s Wayback Machine. Keeping with both the original intent and mission of Redhotjazz.org everything will be publicly available outside of our paywall. For ease of use we are improving each entry to meet the norms of the phone friendly modern internet.
The downloadable music files are mostly MP3s but some are in the ancient Real Audio (.ra) format. Rather than opening a new tab so you can stream or download them the Real Audio files will immediately download when you click them. Don’t be frightened. You don’t need Real Audio player to play them but they won’t work on Windows Media Player. We recommend the free and open source VLC player.
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Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920’s; he was also a child of
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Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity,
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Most of the musician pages below are at least started but some of these links will take you to biographies and discographies of the artist
Most of the links in this table will take you to biographies and discographies for these groups on the Archive.org copy of the former Redhotjazz.com.
The essays on this page are hosted on the Archive.org Wayback Machine. Without express permission from the authors we are hesitant to migrate them in
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