This weekend will be a very special one for fans of Bix Beiderbecke, jazz and music history. Sunday, March 10 is the 121 st anniversary of Bix’s birth in Davenport and this year is the 100 th ...

Bix Beiderbecke's virtuosity and originality with the cornet won admiration from Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats in the 1920s. He played... Bix Beiderbecke: 'Singin' the Blues, Vol. I' & 'At the ...

Gordon Jones claims he wasn't much of a trumpeter, but there's no doubt he's a great music fan. Jones, 87, sounds like a much younger man when he talks about Big Band jazz. At the top of his list of ...

In the fall of 1940 Otis Ferguson, film and music critic for the New Republic magazine felt it was time to clear the air. In a column titled “Young Man with A Horn Again” that appeared in the Nov. 18, ...

Bix Beiderbecke, genius of jazz, was born 100 years ago on March 10, 1903 in Davenport. He was a musical genius as a cornet player, pianist and composer. During his few short years on this earth he ...

More than 80 years after Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke died at the age of 28, a theory about the cornetist's controversial end argues Bix was the tragic victim of an anti-liquor campaign arranged by the ...

Bix Beiderbecke, the legendary Davenport-born jazz cornet player, will be in the spotlight this week and next as the community kicks off a year-long celebration commemorating the 100th anniversary of ...

Program notes by George Avakian on container. Performer(s): Popular songs for dance orchestra; Bix Beiderbecke, cornet, piano ; Frankie Trumbauer, Scrappy Lambert, Jack Fulton and Bing Crosby featured ...

Robert Forrest's play explores the heart and mind of legendary cornet player Bix Beiderbecke and his relationship with Louis Armstrong. Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong met on several occasions but ...

The 54th Bix Jazz Festival kicks off Thursday, July 31. Run by the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society, the festival features ticketed events, free shows, a river cruise, and more than 20 jazz sets by ...