Jazz Articles about Bunny Berigan

Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz

by David Rickert
May 13, 2005

Robert Dupuis Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz Louisiana University Press ISBN: 0-8071-3068-0 384 pages

After Bunny Berigan's death many writers said that eventually he would be held in the same high regard as Bix Beiderbecke. Obviously that didn't happen; Bix became the talented white trumpeter who died too early and Berigan is remembered, if he's remembered at all, for his solos on Goodman's “King Porter Stomp, Dorsey's “Marie, and maybe for ...