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    What great cornet-playing Iowan jazz-musician was officially born as a "lion", but is better known by another name that refers to a famous German chancellor?

    Question #70178. Asked by Flem-ish. (Aug 28 06 10:14 PM)


    peasypod

    This must be Bix Beiderbecke AKA Leon Bix Beiderbecke.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix_Beiderbecke

    Aug 28 06, 10:20 PM
    Flem-ish

    Bix Beiderbecke indeed. Just wondering how the Beiderbeckes kept all those Bixes apart, if Bix was both the father's and the older brother's nickname and also Leon's official second name.

    Aug 28 06, 11:25 PM


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