Rich Johnson and my old postings in the Forum to the rescue: Floyd Bean, Wilbur Hatch.
Posted Oct 6, 2010 7:21 AM
I am an idiot. I did not check Rich Johnson's book or the forum! And in fact I missed the reference to Floyd Bean in Evans and Evans! Apologies.
Rich has a chapter on Floyd Bean in "The Davenport Album." Rich writes, "A trumpet player by the name of Bix Beiderbecke used to come out from town and sit with us, said Bean of then 19-year-old Bix."
I have a posting in the forum, nearly 3 years ago,
"A self-taught cornetist, he began playing the horn at the age of 14. Due to his lack of formal music education, he played numerous alternate fingerings, and even played the horn left-handed for eight years. But he was a natural, and by the age of 16 he was playing in local bands such as Wilbur Hatchs Quartet at Delavan Lake and Floyd Beans Band at Linwood Inn."
The Downbeat article gives 14, the Encyclopedia 13, but otherwise the information is very similar.
In my posting mentioned above, I quoted Evans and Evans, "July 5, 1922. Bix joined the Vic Moore-Bud Hatch Quartet at Delavan Lake Country Club." So Bud Hatch became Wilbur Hatch in the Downbeat article, and this was copied by Feather and Gitler in their Encyclopedia. I referred to this in the past as "propagation of errors" by writers who do not check primary sources.