Known among his fellow Dixieland jazz fans as “the Fastest Washboard in the East," Bill Donahoe died May 22nd in Lady Lake, Florida. He was 83 years old. Introduced to the music of Bix Beiderbecke by ...

On public radio this week, Riverwalk Jazz explores cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's gift for music and his place in jazz history. One of the first major soloists to emerge in jazz, Beiderbecke is ...

The Renaissance Jazz Band performs Dixieland-style tunes beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at the Northeast Art Center Auditorium, 3233 Grove, in Standish. The band, compiled of musicians from ...

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 ...

Dixieland fans are flocking to Davenport for the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival which opens this today for the 51st time. Steve Trainor, president of the Bix Jazz Society, says there will be ...

The art of cornetist and composer Bix Beiderbecke was essentially about doing a lot with a little. His entire life spanned only 28 years, and his recording career a mere six. Furthermore, most of the ...

With his horn, he made good money during the Great Depression. He toured with circus bands and played on Bourbon Street in New Orleans before traveling around the country with various Dixieland bands.

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 ...

Picture it: A giant stage backed up against trees on the north side of Lindsay Park, elevating acts that pour out music styles from a century gone by. The grounds filled with spectators, listening to ...

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 ...