[Dixielandjazz] Bix and Wild Bill

[Phil O'Rourke]

According to Hal Willard's book "The Wildest One - The Life of Wild Bill
Davison" Bill met Bix earlier, in December 1923, when the Wolverines were
playing at the Stockton Club Hamilton, Cincinati.
The later dance in question is given as at the Miami School for Girls at
Oxford, Ohio and was in mid January 1924. Bix was in the Wolverines and Bill
had his first job  as a leader. The band was called the Ohio Nine Collegians
of Defiance and it was a pick-up band.
Bill was playing with the Chubb-Steinberg Band at the time so some of the
musos may have come from that band. The only other musician that can
definetely be put in the band was Carl Clauve on banjo.

Phil O'Rourke
Australia



> Bill once told me that The first time he heard Bix was when they were
> playing for a fraternity dance.  Bix was at one end of the hall and
whomever
> Bill was playing with, was at the other end.
>
> Bill told me that after hearing Bix, it caused him to change his whole
stile
> of playing.
>
> I wish I would have talked to him further about his comment as he did not
> sound like Bix, nor phrase like Bix in any way, shape or form . . . . That
> of course is only my opinion.
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald K6YBV