A book about widely honored jazz player Bix Beiderbecke has been making waves in his hometown of Davenport. “Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend,” written by Davenport-native Brendan ...

An Iowa musician is featured in a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The exhibit is called “American Cool,” and a black-and-white picture of ...

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 2014 Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival was set for July 31 through August 3 in Davenport, Iowa. The festival started when the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Band, of New Jersey, traveled to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival returns to the Quad Cities, celebrating one of the most influential jazz musicians in American ...

Only a year ago (hard to believe), Ken Burns' "Jazz" TV series followed the evolution of this distinctly American music from the back alleys of New Orleans to far-flung parts of the world. Early in ...

Yesterday, I provided you with a link and password to watch Oscar-winning director Brigitte Berman's newly restored documentary, Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet (1981) for free. Brigitte ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago tomorrow evening, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke flew into a fit of insanity at his home in Queens, N.Y., and promptly died. He was 28 years old. Beiderbecke was a long-time abuser of ...