Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
– Weekly salary paid in 1927 to Bix Beiderbecke for playing cornet in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra: $200
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $2,092.32
(Source: Jean Pierre Lion, Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend)
– Weekly salary paid in 1927 to Bix Beiderbecke for playing cornet in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra: $200
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $2,092.32
(Source: Jean Pierre Lion, Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend)
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