[Dixielandjazz] Bix's name was ...

[Tom Belmessieri]

Fred (and all),

This is correct.  The reference to Bismark is because an older relative was 
named Bismark but was called Bix as a nickname.  People assumed, because 
Leon Bix was called Bix, that his real (middle) name was Bismark, but it 
wasn't.

Tom B.
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>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Bix's name was ...
>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:15:53 +0000
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>Leon Bix Beiderbecke.  As shown in the photograph of his birth certificate 
>on page 26 in Bix, Man & Legend, by Richard Sudhalter and Philip R. Evans.
>
>~Rae Ann
>
>
> > Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Bob Smith
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