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 ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Every year dozens of musicians representing many different genres supply the background music along the route for the Quad-City Times Bix 7. The music creates an energy that ...

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 ...

“The point is to keep the music of Bix alive,” Braren, president of the museum board, said, mentioning that the 2016 festival attracted people from 40 states and nine countries. “Who else has this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indrek Spungin's 'Happiness Is Living in Our Land' tells the story of Estonian punks, while Emilis Vėlyvis' 'BIX Almost Nirvana' goes backstage, and on tour, with a famous Lithuanian band and an ...

Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, who considered himself a failure and died (primarily from alcohol abuse) in 1931 at age twenty-eight, would no doubt have been astonished to learn that a group of world- ...