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 ...

Here's a new album by the Bix Centennial All Stars honoring the legacy of the renowned cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Sort of. Actually, most of the music on Celebrating Bix! was recorded and released in ...

MOLINE, Ill. — It's a musical birthday bash fit for a Quad City legend. The public is invited to the Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Bash on March 9 and 10 for a weekend of live music, food, conversations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gordon Jones claims he wasn't much of a trumpeter, but there's no doubt he's a great music fan. Jones, 87, sounds like a much younger man when he talks about Big Band jazz. At the top of his list of ...

DAVENPORT -- Horns rang out with the sounds of jazz and Big Band music on Friday night at the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival at LeClaire Park on Beiderbecke Drive. Despite a little rain, the ...

Bix Beiderbecke was one of the greatest jazz musicians of the roaring 20s, inspiring such legends as Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael. His self-taught, unorthodox coronet style produced a ...

Bix Beiderbecke's virtuosity and originality with the cornet won admiration from Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats in the 1920s. He played... Bix Beiderbecke: 'Singin' the Blues, Vol. I' & 'At the ...

MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) -The 2024 Bix Birthday Bash will celebrate Beiderbecke’s 125th birthday and 100 years of his jazz music on March 10 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at The Viking Club, 1450 41st Street, Moline ...

In the fall of 1940 Otis Ferguson, film and music critic for the New Republic magazine felt it was time to clear the air. In a column titled “Young Man with A Horn Again” that appeared in the Nov. 18, ...