Richard sudhalter bix beiderbecke biography

Richard Merrill Sudhalter was born on December 28, in Boston, MA in a musical family.!

Richard M. Sudhalter

A Biographical Sketch

by Albert Haim

I am certain that all jazz fans know about the crucial role that Richard Sudhalter has played in the fields of Jazzology and Bixology.

Bix Beiderbecke, famous before he was twenty and dead in a New York City hotel room at twenty-eight, was the prototype of the self-destructive "young man.

Here's the Introduction from the Sudhalter/Evans/Myatt Bix Man & Legend which will kick off a two-part series on Bix and his music on these pages.

Richard Merrill Sudhalter was born on December 28, in Boston, MA in a musical family.

Fulfilling his teenage prediction, Sudhalter, of course, did write the biography of Bix Beiderbecke, and a fine job of it he did.

Bix Man Legend by Richard Sudhalter The life and work of Leon Bix Beiderbecke who, as Pictorial card covers.

Richard is a multi-talented individual: author, musician, historian,researcher, teacher, critic, etc. Richard's achievements are too numerous to list in detail here: scholarly articles in magazines and newspapers, chapters in books, liners for records and CDs, concert organizer, radio broadcaster, Grammy Award winner, excellent trumpeter and band leader who has numerous recordings to his credit.

Richard Merrill Sudhalter was born on December 28, 1938 in in a musical family.

Richard’s father, Albert, was an alto saxophonist who played in the 1920s and 1930s. His sister Carol plays flute and saxophones. Richard grew up in , and began to take cornet lessons in 1950 after hearing