The Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archives in downtown Davenport is moving. The nonprofit will soon be located on 2nd Street after being in the basement of the Redstone building for five years.
American Jazz Musician Bix Beiderbecke was born Leon Bix Beiderbecke on 10th March, 1903 in Davenport, Iowa and passed away on 6th Aug 1931 Sunnyside, Queens, New York aged 28. He is most remembered ...
Bix Beiderbecke was one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 1920s. His colorful life, quick rise and fall, and eventual status as a martyr made him a legend even before he died. Possessor of a ...
Each episode unfolds to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke performed by Frank Ricotti with Kenny Baker as featured cornet soloist. Extensive use is made of leitmotifs for ...
including Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols, Joe Venuti, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and the Dorsey brothers, Tommy and Jimmy. He arranged for Broadway and wrote songs, the most famous of which is “I’m ...
The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits to British Television since the 1960s ...