The Bix Beiderbecke Museum has a new location, just in time for the annual road race and jazz festival. The Bix Museum is hosting a grand opening celebration in the City Square Building, 112 W 2nd ...

Common Chord and the Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Society are joining forces to reach more people in the Quad Cities and beyond. The two organizations are officially merging as Bix Society programs will join ...

Early jazz legend Leon Bismark [Bix] Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, a mid-sized midwestern city. He attended Davenport schools until 1920 and showed an early aptitude for ...

In 2008, the jazz world lost jazz historian and cornetist Richard Sudhalter. Sudhalter joined Marian McPartland on several occasions over the years to provide historical perspective and play some gems ...

On public radio this week, Riverwalk Jazz explores cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's gift for music and his place in jazz history. One of the first major soloists to emerge in jazz, Beiderbecke is ...

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

And yet, Armstrong has all but eclipsed Beiderbecke in the popular imagination: New Orleans is known as the "birthplace of jazz," giving us Jelly Roll Morton, Willie Humphrey, Harry Connick Jr. and ...

It was 75 years ago this summer that Bix Beiderbecke, the bright-burning cornetist who created some of the greatest jazz records of the 1920s, blew his last chimelike notes and passed into legend at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The childhood home of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke is back on the market in Davenport. It offers history buffs and preservationists ...

For me, one of the principal charms of New York City is that it is home to some of the greatest jazz figures in history, who are commemorated with plaques, signs or street names in neighbourhoods ...

Alyn Shipton explores the music of cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, covering key recordings including Singing the Blues and I'm Coming Virginia as well as later big band work. Show more Despite a recording ...

I own lots of music. Long-playing records, compact discs, and MP3 files burst from closets and hard drives in my house — they stack up on desks and dressers and must-listen-to lists. It’s a joy, and ...