Bix Beiderbecke
Posted on 27 August, 2011. Post tags: Beiderbecke
Singin The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke
At the Jazz Band Ball - Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang, 1927
Library > Miscellaneous > Britannica Concise Encyclopedia (born March 10, 1903, Davenport, Iowa, U.S. - died Aug. 6, 1931, Long Island, N.Y.) U.S. jazz cornetist . Powered by Oxford University Press. Leon (1903 -1931) Cornetist Perpetuates the music and memory of Leon Bismark "Bix" through an annual jazz festival in July, jazz education programs, and the preservation of . went back to his hometown of Davenport, Iowa to recover at his parents home. He returned to New York in 1930 and made these last recording sessions in . Bix was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920's he was also a child of the Jazz Age who drank himself to an early grave with illegal Prohibition liquor This site is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of information about the musical genius from Davenport, Iowa.
Beiderbecke's official profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. Beiderbecke. Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903 in Davenport, Iowa to Bismark and Agatha Bismark was an executive with the East Davenport .


