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 ...

Mike Davis and the New Wonders return to the Bickford Theatre to celebrate the birthday of a true original, a leading light of daring Jazz Age creativity: cornetist, pianist and composer Bix ...

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 ...

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 ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Kelly Rundle, Fourth Wall Films, discusses the special Quad Cities’ premiere screening of the newly restored documentary BIX: “ain’t none of them play like him yet” by ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT -- A new museum hall focusing on Davenport native and jazz great Bix Beiderbecke could open in a couple of years within the Grand Lobby of the Putnam Museum and IMAX Theatre. Thursday, the ...