Bix Scott Chantler 254 Pages ISBN: #9781501190780 (13) Gallery 13 2020 Leon Bismark “Bix" Beiderbecke's brief life has all of the hallmarks of a romantic legend. Wrote and recorded some of the ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - The Quad Cities’ longest-running music festival kicks off Aug 4. The Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival begins Aug 4 and goes until Aug 6. The festival honors Davenport native Leon ...

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 – The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Society will celebrate the life and music of legendary musician Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke at the 42nd annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, ...

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” ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Bix Beiderbecke's birthday today! Early jazz legend Leon Bismark [Bix] Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, a mid-sized midwestern city. He ...

DAVENPORT -- The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Society will celebrate the life and music of Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke at the 43rd annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, July 31 - Aug. 3, in ...

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 ...

When Andy Schumm comes to Racine next week it won't be for the kringle or the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. Instead, the 23-year-old, Milwaukee-based professional musician will come to town - as he ...

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 ...

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN—Dorothy Baker—Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). This first novel was inspired by the music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in ...

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” ...