Bob Lance of Moline parked his boat Saturday afternoon next to Davenport’s LeClaire Park, took out his fishing rod and cast his line into the water. “I don’t know if I’ll catch anything,” Lance said ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — It's a musical birthday bash fit for a Quad City legend. The public is invited to the Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Bash on March 9 and 10 for a weekend of live music, food, conversations ...

Bix Beiderbecke's virtuosity and originality with the cornet won admiration from Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats in the 1920s. He played... Bix Beiderbecke: 'Singin' the Blues, Vol. I' & 'At the ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) -The 2024 Bix Birthday Bash will celebrate Beiderbecke’s 125th birthday and 100 years of his jazz music on March 10 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at The Viking Club, 1450 41st Street, Moline ...

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 ...

Announcing a 3-day musical event in Davenport starting on Saturday, November 3. The young drummer Joshua Duffee and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society are presenting “Bix and His Gang," a live ...