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 ...

The Bix Jazz Society broadcasted the 49th annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival online last weekend to bring the Quad Cities its annual fix of live jazz. Typically, that week-long festival ...

Devoted fans of eastern Iowa jazz pioneer Bix Beiderbecke are launching a movement to have the Davenport native honored on a U.S. postage stamp. Gerri Bowers, the historian for the Bix Beiderbecke ...

The first place Chris Beiderbecke learned of his great-uncle Bix Beiderbecke’s fame was from a World Book Encyclopedia. Beiderbecke, in grade school at the time, looked up his last name while in ...

On this Piano Jazz program from the spring of 2000, Sudhalter and McPartland discuss the legacy of cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke. Though his life was short, Beiderbecke's legacy was long ...

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.

Early jazz legend Leon Bismark [Bix] Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, a mid-sized midwestern city. He attended Davenport schools until 1920 and showed an early aptitude for ...

Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Society will hold the 50th Annual Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival this week on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to honor the memory of Davenport native and jazz legend Leon “Bix ...