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 ...

In 2008, the jazz world lost jazz historian and cornetist Richard Sudhalter. Sudhalter joined Marian McPartland on several occasions over the years to provide historical perspective and play some gems ...

This weekend will be a very special one for fans of Bix Beiderbecke, jazz and music history. Sunday, March 10 is the 121st anniversary of Bix's birth in Davenport and this year is the 100th ...

And yet, Armstrong has all but eclipsed Beiderbecke in the popular imagination: New Orleans is known as the "birthplace of jazz," giving us Jelly Roll Morton, Willie Humphrey, Harry Connick Jr. and ...

Alyn Shipton explores the music of cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, covering key recordings including Singing the Blues and I'm Coming Virginia as well as later big band work. Show more Despite a recording ...

It was 75 years ago this summer that Bix Beiderbecke, the bright-burning cornetist who created some of the greatest jazz records of the 1920s, blew his last chimelike notes and passed into legend at ...

For me, one of the principal charms of New York City is that it is home to some of the greatest jazz figures in history, who are commemorated with plaques, signs or street names in neighbourhoods ...

In “Remembering Song” (1982), one of the beautifully crafted non-fiction books by which Frederick Turner has till now made his name, he laments that most good writers about the Jazz Age tend to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The childhood home of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke is back on the market in Davenport. It offers history buffs and preservationists ...

The childhood home of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke is back on the market in Davenport. It offers history buffs and preservationists a rare chance to own a piece of American music history if they're ...