The 55th Bix Jazz Festival celebrates its emerald anniversary with events highlighting Bix Beiderbecke’s collaborations with Jean Goldkette, a news release says. The 2026 festival will also recognize ...
The Bix Beiderbecke Museum reopens in a new downtown Davenport location after 2023 flooding, with more space, new exhibits, ...
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 ...
The Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archives will hold its grand opening for its new location on Friday, July 24.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — The grand opening of the relocated Bix Beiderbecke Museum didn't quite make its goal, but officials are hoping they'll be ready to open their doors soon. The nonprofit will soon be ...
JUST RELEASED - a new two-CD set “The Influence of Bix Beiderbecke" The legendary cornetist Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) had a determining influence on many other jazz musicians during the 1920s; some ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
January 2, 2009 • A cornetist and jazz scholar, Sudhalter remembers overlooked cornetist Bix Beiderbecke with Marian McPartland. Beiderbecke had a short career in the 1920s, but he influenced a wide ...