[78-L] Fw: Capitol or Sidney?

[eugene hayhoe]

I was reading Terry Teachout biography of Louis Armstrong and encountered a specific detail I am interested in.
Teachout says that Bix went to hear Louis while the latter was playing on the steamboat Sidney. Since I am familiar with the pictures of Fate Marable's Band from the bigger and newer Capitol, and it's known that Marable's band with Louis played on both, between 1919 and 1923, I wonder if there's a way to pinpoint it.
Raeburn, on the Louisiana Museum website, says "Jazz stories of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke hearing Louis Armstrong for the first time in Davenport, Iowa, probably refer to excursions by the Capitol in 1920 or 1921."
Louis himself mention the Sidney but after that says something about "the big boat" (that could be the Capitol) on an interview contained in the first instalment of Grover's radio biography of Bix, that can be listened to on the wonderful site www.bixography.com.
But not being a native English speaker and due to the limited fidelity of the real audio file, I am not able to understand it clearly. If someone  is able to help me clear this point writing down the short quotation from Louis I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for any help
F. Martinelli, Italy 


--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Francesco Martinelli <francesco.martinelli at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Francesco Martinelli <francesco.martinelli at gmail.com>
Subject: Capitol or Sidney?
To: "eugene hayhoe" <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 7:17 AM


Eugene,
I am trying to post this to the 78 list, but it's not coming through unless I am mistaken.
Can you post it?
thanks a lot
F

I was reading Terry Teachout biography of Louis Armstrong and encountered a specific detail I am interested in.
Teachout says that Bix went to hear Louis while the latter was playing on the steamboat Sidney. Since I am familiar with the pictures of Fate Marable's Band from the bigger and newer Capitol, and it's known that Marable's band with Louis played on both, between 1919 and 1923, I wonder if there's a way to pinpoint it.
Raeburn, on the Louisiana Museum website, says "Jazz stories of cornetist Bix Beiderbecke hearing Louis Armstrong for the first time in Davenport, Iowa, probably refer to excursions by the Capitol in 1920 or 1921."
Louis himself mention the Sidney but after that says something about "the big boat" (that could be the Capitol) on an interview contained in the first instalment of Grover's radio biography of Bix, that can be listened to on the wonderful site www.bixography.com.
But not being a native English speaker and due to the limited fidelity of the real audio file, I am not able to understand it clearly. If someone  is able to help me clear this point writing down the short quotation from Louis I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for any help
F. Martinelli, Italy