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 nonprofit will soon be located on 2nd Street after being in the basement of the Redstone building for five years. The organization hopes that the move will make the museum more visible so that it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Without a doubt, Louis Armstrong is the most famous jazz musician who ever lived in Queens. However, Satchmo often cited a much lesser-known borough resident, Bix Beiderbecke, as one of his biggest ...

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 ...

As in many of the most sophisticated fiction films, the prime action in the 1981 documentary “Bix: Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet” takes place in the interstices and beneath the surfaces. Bix ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - The Quad Cities’ longest-running music festival kicks off Aug 4. The Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival begins Aug 4 and goes until Aug 6. The festival honors Davenport native Leon ...

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 ...

The composer and cornet player Bix Beiderbecke changed music forever in a very short life. A restored documentary from the ’80s goes into the details. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...