Bix Beiderbecke and Lazy Daddy

Hans Eekhoff from the Netherlands writes on 4/26/99: Lazy Daddy by the Wolverines. According to all discographies has a kazoo solo by George Brunies. Fine. But a kazoo can only be heard for four bars, the rest of the solo is by someone playing a trumpet mouthpiece and I say it's Bix. I would like to know what Sudhalter, who plays cornet, thinks.
Added 4/27/99. My English friend John R. T. Davies who does the remastering for Timeless agrees with me on the Lazy Daddy issue so this might add some weight to my point. Have you played Lazy Daddy recently? After his mouthpiece solo Bix takes quite some time to get back to his position away from the recording horn and join in the ensemble. Just listen carefully and I'm sure you'll see what I mean.
Follow-up 1. Albert Haim writes on 4/27/99: I listened carefully to the two takes of Lazy Daddy. Hans is absolutely right about a cornet not being heard for a few bars after the kazoo (or more likely, cornet mouthpiece) solo ends. Similarly, the cornet drops out a few bars before the kazoo (or more likely, cornet mouthpiece) is heard. In the middle of the 16-bar solo, one hears for a few bars, what appears to be a kazoo. I must say that within the very restricted range of a cornet mouthpiece, the solo sounds Bixian. This brings up a question about the statement in p. 164 of "Bix, The Leon Bix Beiderbecke Story", by Philip and Linda Evans: "George Brunis played kazoo on "Lazy Daddy". Bix played piano behind George." If Bix is playing his mouthpiece, then the piano player must be Dick Voynow.
Addendum, 4/28/99. I listened carefully for a trombone just before or after the 16-bar solo. I could not detect a trombone before the solo. I cannot tell if a trombone is present immediately after the solo. Of course, evidence of a trombone immediately before or after the solo, would rule out conclusively George Brunis as the player of the solo. Evidently, the disappearance of Bix a few bars before the solo and his reappearance a few bars after the solo are compatible with Evans contention that Bix is playing piano while Brunis is playing kazoo. The key question revolves around the identification of the instrument for the 16-bar solo as a kazoo or a mouthpiece. Hans believes that it is a trumpet mouthpiece. So do I.
Follow-up 2. Frank Youngwerth writes on 5/4/99. Ted Lewis and His Band recorded "San" in 1930, and here you'll find George Brunis carrying on, presumably with his trombone mouthpiece, much in the manner he does on the Wolverines' "Lazy Daddy." Besides, Bix never played cornet in the hokey style of the Wolverines' mouthpiece player.
Follow-up 3. Scott Black writes on 5/4/99. Well, Lazy Daddy, that has to be Bix on piano. He drops out before the solo, and the chords don't sound at all like Voynow. Bix had a very heavy two fisted sound when he was pounding out chords with a band.
Follow-up 4. Hans Eekhoff from the Netherlands writes on 5/07/99: I'm willing to accept Youngwerth's theory that it's Brunies on trombone mouthpiece, but it still is a mouthpiece.

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