[78-L] Beiderbecke TV series on BBC

[Dan Van Landingham]

This sounds very similar to the Billie Holiday special I saw yesterday on 
Ovation TV.There was
much of her life that was left out such as her relationship to Lester Young and 
Freddie Green and
her marijuana use in the '30s as well as her 1941 marriage to Jimmy 
Monroe(brother of Clark 

Monroe who owned "Monroe's Uptown House")which took place in Elkton,Maryland and 
who
introduced her to heroin and to her "marriage" to trumpeter Joe Guy around 
1945.Guy and Holiday
were together when she went to prison in 1947.Guy appearantly led her 1945 big 
band.He vanish-
ed after 1947;I don't know what ever became of him.The only recorded work I ever 
heard by him
was Cootie Williams' 1942 Columbia recording of "Fly Right" a/k/a "Epistrophy" 
which was unis-
sued until 1966(on the Columbia LP "The Sound of Harlem" according to Ira 
Gitler).The special
also claimed she cut her last album in 1958 for Columbia-"Lady in Satin" 
conducted by Ray Ellis.I
was of the impression she cut her last album for MGM in 1959.




________________________________
From: JOHN WRIGHT <vintage at jabw.demon.co.uk>
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Sent: Mon, November 8, 2010 2:00:53 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Beiderbecke TV series on BBC

Hi,

As usual I'm a week behind with 78L digests.

The Beiderbecke Affair etc did NOT feature ANY music played by Bix.

The music was only ever clips played by a present-day British band.

Bix rarely mentioned in the scripts. Non-jazz fans learned nothing about
him.


John



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