Very interesting thread. Civil discourse, to boot. N54 at it's best. I'd be content to just sit back and lurk but any thread that mentions Bix Beiderbecke and I'm in there like a dirty shirt. In fact, some of you may recall my pre-hard drive crash
nom de plume on the old Board, Big Spider Beck. In lockstep with my passion for vintage cardboard is my love of pre-war jazz from the '20's and '30's. Don't even get me started.
Here is a YouTube clip which purportedly contains the only appearance of Bix in a sound film. He appears around 1:10 for fifteen seconds or so. It's not Bix at his best but it's all we've got. I have also seen a documentary which had a few seconds of silent footage of Bix walking with a group of musicians. As Annette Hanshaw would say, "That's all."