Richard Bix Beiderbecke, 73, of Jacksonville, Illinois passed away peacefully Sunday afternoon, Sept. 5, 2004 at Passavant Hospital in Jacksonville after a lengthy battle with cancer. His family was ...

Bix Beiderbecke is probably the most discussed jazz musician of his time. He is held in a very high regard in which legend and performance are intertwined. Beiderbecke made the first of his 250 ...

More than 80 years after Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke died at the age of 28, a theory about the cornetist's controversial end argues Bix was the tragic victim of an anti-liquor campaign arranged by the ...

(Wendy Hammen of Davenport wears makeup, her mother's wool check suit and feathered velvet hat when she portrays Agatha "Aggie" Beiderbecke, mother of Bix, as she would have appeared in 1941 at the ...

In a gloomy March weekend in a windowless banquet room at the Kenosha Holiday Inn, a group of determined people are trying to raise the dead. It doesn’t look like a seance–most of the attendees are ...