Bix Beiderbecke Band Chair

We are very excited to be able to represent the American cornettist, pianist and composer Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke within our heritage collection.

December Saturday 16th 2017, something new caught the eye—or rather something very old and very rickety. An ancient wooden chair with a splint screwed to one ancient leg. On closer inspection this chair proved to be one of the Jazz Centre’s most precious acquisitions! A brass plaque attached to the chair frame revealed all, explaining that none other than the legendary cornetist Leon ‘Bix’ Beiderbecke had sat on the chair whilst playing with the Jean Goldkette Orchestra in Wall Lake, Michigan in 1927. 

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