Beiderbecke

Shaw, the clarinetist and bandleader, was a devotee of Beiderbecke, and is interviewed in Berman’s Beiderbecke film.

Further Jazz lots include two scores by Irving Berlin - Songs from Top Hat and Songs from Follow the Fleet - inscribed to Ginger Rogers; and two inscribed piano scores by the influential cornetist Leon 'Bix' Beiderbecke.

A child prodigy, Beiderbecke first fell in love with jazz via the frenetically bouncy tune “Tiger Rag.”

Born in 1903, Bix Beiderbecke didn’t live to be 30, but he made an impression on jazz that is still felt today.

But the film does cite Beiderbecke’s devotion to Bessie Smith, as well as his playing in integrated jam sessions.