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The Reader’s Notebook: Bix Beiderbecke

Morehead State Public Radio | By Greg Jenkins
Published March 10, 2020 at 10:46 AM EDT
britannica.com

March 10, 2020 -- Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone. 
The Reader’s Notebook
Greg Jenkins
Greg Jenkins has been the Operations Director at MSPR since 1999. Greg is a 1996 graduate of Morehead State University with a BME in Music Education and received a Masters of Science in Industrial Technology in 2008. Greg oversees training, scheduling, and evaluation of the student board operator staff, preparation of the daily traffic logs and serves as weekday classical music host. He is also the webmaster of the MSPR website and maintains MSPR's webstreaming and podcasting.
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