I read this in the article you so kindly provided a link to, "Bix Beiderbecke, a compulsive drinker, died in New York in 1931, at the age of 28. Ten years later, when Bill Challis, who'd done much to preserve and perpetuate Beiderbecke's music, brought some Bix-evoking arrangements to Glenn Miller, the popular bandleader rejected Challis's charts: He said people didn't know or care about Beiderbecke anymore."
This is new information to me-this Glenn Miller incident.
It is upsetting to me to read how Glenn Miller responded to the offer of those arrangements offered to him by Bill Challis.
I truely think Glenn Miller was wrong.I believe there were a lot of people who cared about Bix in 1941.