[Dixielandjazz] Syncopation

[Marek Boym]

> I wonder if Rex felt uncomfortable with Bunny taking his solos. It does make
> you wonder whether this was Jim Crow again - but odd that they chose to show
> a black man on screen but use a white man to play his solo, when you would
> have thought it would have been the other way round.
> Rex of course would have been more than up to the job of performing both
> roles.

Probably just the stupid Hollywood practice; after all, In BG Story,
it was Ziggy Elman on screen, but Mannie Klein actually played the
solo on "And the Angels Sing!"
Cheers