Jean Goldkette with Bix, private footage from 1926 combined with Clementine

[@chuckciao1]

Great to see rare film footage of Bix!

[@chrisyonts9652]

This is great!

[@bobboscarato1313]

Amazing considering the age of the film!

[@MrGreencheetah]

Thanks for helping bring history "back to life."

[@TinLizzie-uc1jw]

Wow, this is amazing footage! Thanks for uploading this.

[@giovannirivoira5496]

Splendid!!the tune is a masterwork.The orchestra was spectacular,Bix was(and still is)a giant and the footage is a real gem!thank you!

[@evelynkstz4946]

Great piece of history.

[@gennettor8915]

I have a slightly longer 16mm print of this "Jean Goldkette Orchestra on Tour" movie, better quality and also including a few frames of just Bix with the guy in the monkey suit. I held a party with live jazz and showed the movie it at Bix's house in Davenport for a dedicated audience in 2006. I made a special montage and compilation of a few contemporary Goldkette recordings ("Clementine" was recorded later) for the soundtrack.

[@John-yk6nu]

Yea BIX ! Been to Davenport several times for the BIX FEST!!! Great event to say the least. NH

[@brianwolle2509]

this is the song that artie shaw said, swung like mad.

[@rlbroyles1]

Ken Burns Jazz documentary, some of the greatest media Ive ever seen. Always loved Artie’s line that you quoted from it

[@ferminguerratello624]

The Question Is , What Moment Appears Jean Goldkette? But Is Minor Than The Confusion , This Is The Ohio Zoo Same Place When Vincent Lopez And Goldkette's Orchestras Were Reunited In 1924

[@gardengit]

is this Eddie Lang at 2:08 … ?

[@kaspafischer]

yes... great catch!

[@OLD_SOUL1900]

💖💖💖💖

[@lindyhoppers]

For intellectual honesty at least, please mentions that the video was ripped from the video I posted years ago on my channel...

[@ABrandsma]

Done. Technically it wasn't ripped, but copied, by using a device that makes a kind of screenshot, but then video. Thanks!

[@alexrevell8114]

What a shame the cameraman didn't keep still and take the trouble to get his focus right. :-)

[@ABrandsma]

Private material, from the musicians, themselves.

[@bobboscarato1313]

He probably had some drinks earlier!

[@ilkkasysila4714]

... certainly!

[@chrismartindrummer]

Who’s who in each frame?

[@chrismartindrummer]

What locations are these?

[@dallaskenn]

Clearly the most influential trumpeter after Louis Armstrong, and before Dizzy Gillespie.

[@reme6944]

Does anyone know who the monkey was? Goldkette? 🙊

[@bradfordrick1]

Man, this tune swings like mad. Jazz comes from the heart, not the skin. It is tragic that, just like baseball, the white and black musicians were prohibited by the racist customs of the day from playing with one another.

[@ABrandsma]

Yes, that is true. But also deserves some nuance. It was not everywhere officially forbidden to play with mixed bands. The California Ramblers, F.I. played regular with the black trumpet player Bill Moore in 1924 allready. They could do this, since they owned their own club. Later in 1929 Bubber Miley played regular with Leo Reismann, and Bix and Bubber also recorded together. Then different examples are that both PeeWee Russell and Jack Teagarden helped out with the Fletcher Henderson band in live situations. So the rules about these things differed from state to state, county to county and even towns. In New York it was not illegal, but it was not very practical, since it usually meant asking permission from two different unions. Also don't forget that someone like Coleman Hawkins between 1934 and 1939 played nearly exclusively with white musicians. So I would like the statement, that jazz actually was one of the earliest areas where musicians from different backgrounds met and worked together on more or less equall level. (Not entirely, since in the regular Dutch Coleman Hawkins trio, 1937 - 1939, Hawkins earned 100 guilders for a gig, pianist Freddy Johnson 50 and the white Dutch drummer from Jewish background Maurice van Kleef (who survived Auschwitz) only got 25.....

[@jazzygiraffe8589]

Why is there a guy in a goofy costume and what's it meant to symbolize?

[@stevengluzband7464]

I’m thinking it’s a mouse for the number 3 blind mice?

[@jazzygiraffe8589]

@@stevengluzband7464 Good guess

[@mstheman10]

It looks like a monkey costume. If I had to guess, I'd say that they went to the zoo and someone thought it'd be funny to wear it and dance for the animals.