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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Bix Beiderbecke Museum is trading its basement gallery beneath the Redstone Building for a 2,100-square-foot storefront at 112 W. 2nd St., right across the street. Curators will ...

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 ...

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 ...

AT age 26, Josh Duffee is still considered a youngster by many standards. But it amazes Duffee — a bandleader, drummer and music preservationist — that Bix Beiderbecke was setting the jazz world on ...

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 ...