All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! As a boy, Bix Beiderbecke had a few piano lessons, but he was self-taught on cornet and developed an unorthodox technique by playing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival returns to the Quad Cities, celebrating one of the most influential jazz musicians in American ...

The nonprofit will soon be located on 2nd Street after being in the basement of the Redstone building for five years. The organization hopes that the move will make the museum more visible so that it ...

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, 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. Curators will ...

Boats began to drop anchor Friday in the Mississippi River off the edge of LeClaire Park in Davenport, a telltale sign that the 34th annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival had begun.

When composer Hoagy Carmichael met jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke in 1921, their worlds — and the course of music history — changed for the better. Carmichael's first-born son, Hoagy Bix, is one of ...

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 ...

The 54th Bix Jazz Festival kicks off Thursday, July 31. Run by the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society, the festival features ticketed events, free shows, a river cruise, and more than 20 jazz sets by ...

Bix is back in a biography by David R. Collins, "Bix Beiderbecke: Jazz Age Genius" covers all the stages of the musician's short but remarkable life, from his early days through his rise to fame, his ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Start your Bix 7 experience on a high note with the free Bix Jazz & Family Jam set to be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on July 25 at Kaiserslautern Square Park, 119 East Third Street.