Here's a new album by the Bix Centennial All Stars honoring the legacy of the renowned cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Sort of. Actually, most of the music on Celebrating Bix! was recorded and released in ...

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 ...

The art of cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke was essentially about doing a lot with a little. His entire life spanned only 28 years, and his recording career a mere six. Furthermore, most of the ...

MOLINE, Ill. — It's a musical birthday bash fit for a Quad City legend. The public is invited to the Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Bash on March 9 and 10 for a weekend of live music, food, conversations ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — One of the longest-running music festivals in the Quad Cities is officially underway, bringing five straight days of jazz performances, community events and tributes to one of ...

Bob Lance of Moline parked his boat Saturday afternoon next to Davenport’s LeClaire Park, took out his fishing rod and cast his line into the water. “I don’t know if I’ll catch anything,” Lance said ...

MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) -The 2024 Bix Birthday Bash will celebrate Beiderbecke’s 125th birthday and 100 years of his jazz music on March 10 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at The Viking Club, 1450 41st Street, Moline ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Prior to the addition of the Bix 7 road race and block parties, there was a Davenport coronet player named Bix Beiderbecke who is still considered among the greatest jazz ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...