Bix Beiderbecke
Archeophone’s The Complete Wolverines: 1924-1928 was produced by the same team that made finest reissue to date of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Off the Record, and remains a standard source for the Wolverine Orchestra recordings of Bix Beiderbecke. For more information visit: https://www.archeophone.com/catalogue/complete-wolverine-orchestra/. Although the CD is out of print secondhand copies are much easier to acquire than the original 78s.
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Wolverine Orchestra
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt) Al Gande (tb) Jimmy Hartwell (cl) George Johnson (ts) Dick Voynow (p,ldr) Bob Gillette (bj) Min Leibrook (tu) Vic Moore (d)
Richmond, Indiana, February 18, 1924
11751-A
Gennett 5408
11752-A,B
“Lazy Daddy”
Unissued
11753-A
“Sensation Rag”
Unissued
11754-A
Gennett 5408
Wolverine Orchestra
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt) Jimmy Hartwell (cl) George Johnson (ts) Dick Voynow (p,ldr) Bob Gillette (bj) Min Leibrook (tu) Vic Moore (d)
Richmond, Indiana, May 6, 1924
11852
Gennett 5453
11853
Gennett 5453
11854-C
Gennett 5454
11855-A
Gennett 5454
11855-B
Gennett 5454
11856
Unissued
“Royal Garden Blues”
Wolverine Orchestra
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt) Jimmy Hartwell (cl) George Johnson (ts) Dick Voynow (p,ldr) Bob Gillette (bj) Min Leibrook (tu) Vic Moore (d)
Richmond, Indiana, June 20, 1924
11930-B
Gennett Personal 20062
11931-C
Gennett Personal 20062
11932
Test Pressing
Wolverine Orchestra
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt,p on “Lazy Daddy”) George Brunies (tb,kazoo) Jimmy Hartwell (cl,as) George Johnson (ts) Dick Voynow (p) Bob Gillette (bj) Min Leibrook (tu) Vic Moore (d)
New York, September 18, 1924
9079
Gennett 5452
9080-A
Gennett 5452
9080-B
Gennett 5452
Wolverine Orchestra
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt,p on “Big Boy”) George Brunies (tb,kazoo) Jimmy Hartwell (cl,as) George Johnson (ts) Dick Voynow (p) Bob Gillette (bj) Min Leibrook (tu) Vic Moore (d)
New York, October 8, 1924
9115-B
Gennett 5565
9116
Gennett 5565
Sioux City Six
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt) Miff Mole (tb) Frankie Trumbauer (c-mel) Rube Bloom (p) Min Leibrook (tu) Vic Moore (d)
New York, October 10, 1924
9119-A
Gennett 5569
9120-C
Gennett 5569
Bix and his Rhythm Jugglers
Bix Beiderbecke (cnt) Tommy Dorsey (tb) Don Murray (cl) Paul Mertz (p) Howdy Quicksell (bj) Tom Gargano (d)
Richmond, Indiana, January 26, 1925
12140
Gennett 5654
12141
Gennett 5654
12142-B
12143-B
“Magic Blues”
“Nobody Knows What It’s All About”
Unissued
Unissued