Bix Beiderbecke: RSSC-Authored Sources

Additions to festival poster collection, 2012-2016. Posted on August 6, 2016.

A closer look at the local music scene that nurtured Davenport’s world-renowned cornetist. Posted on August 3, 2018

Posted on July 21, 2010.

Davenport Visiting Nurse Association’s Crystal Ball. Posted on December 29, 2008.

Bix 7 Road Race & the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival. Posted on July 21, 2008.

(1) Bix Beiderbecke's 1924 vinyl album, recorded in 1924 in Richmond, IN, and New York City. (2) Bix Beiderbecke’s modern piano suite, published in 1928. (3) Bix: the Davenport album by Rich Johnson with Jim Arpy and Gerri Bowers. Posted on January 4, 2020.

Davenport Blues. Posted on March 10, 2008.

Mina and Mary Beiderbecke at Davenport City Cemetery. Posted on September 25, 2014.

Bix 7 Race & RAGBRAI. Posted on July 24, 2015.

"Singing the Blues” by Trumbauer’s Orchestra. Posted on March 10, 2009.

Learn more about how the race has changed over the years from the experts and through archival items in our collection. Posted on July 20, 2018.

The only known newspaper interview with Bix Beiderbecke, which was published in the Davenport Democrat on February 10, 1929, may have been plagiarized. Posted on February 12, 2010.

Bix Beiderbecke historian who wrote Bix Beiderbecke's Genealogy and BIX: The Davenport Album, co-written with Rich J. Johnson and Jim Arpy. Posted on December 30, 2022.

Use Freegal Music Service to download 3 free songs per week! Posted on April 29, 2017.

In July, the State Historical Society of Iowa awarded the FRIENDS of the Davenport Public Library with a $14,847 grant to digitize media from the Bix Beiderbecke Museum and World Archives Collection. Posted on December 31, 2020.

Musical scores in our collection. Posted on October 6, 2010.

Saengerfest Hall/The Coliseum/The Col Ballroom. Posted on September 15, 2009.

This young man could play the piano by ear at six years old. He went on to play another instrument but never did learn to read music. Posted on July 24, 2014.