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Bix jazz fest announces performers Quad City Times The season of Bix is only a couple of months away and the bands for the 41st annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival are set. Joe Hesse, board member of the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society, told a gathering Tuesday at the Adler Theatre, ...
What's Happenin': Summer 2012 River Cities Reader August 6 will mark the 81st anniversary of the passing of legendary jazz performer (and local-boy-made-awfully-good) Bix Beiderbecke, who was once quoted as saying that jazz “describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has, ...
Bit of Bix history heads for oblivion Quad City Times Bix Beiderbecke's prep school dormitory — where he is claimed to have written his most famous song, “In a Mist” — at Lake Forest College near Chicago may be wrecked next month. This is the loss of a jazz landmark. But so few will care.
Lake Forest board oks college dorm demolition Lake Forester BY LINDA BLASER lblaser@pioneerlocal.com May 3, 2012 2:24PM The Lake Forest College dormitory where jazz great Bix Beiderbecke supposedly composed “In the Mist” may have a June date with the wrecking ball. The Lake Forest Building Review Board voted ...
What Happened to the Generation Gap? Huffington Post Well, they're different, but the differences are not like those between, for example, Bix Beiderbecke and Herb Alpert, or Ella Fitzgerald and Janis Joplin. (In contrast, the stylistic similarities between Lady Gaga and Madonna are fairly obvious, ...
Jim Tighe, 70 Muncie Star Press He loved trains and classic cars as well as being a jazz aficionado who took great pride in sharing Bix Beiderbecke's birthday. Jim is survived by his wife, Sharon; daughters, Jennifer Orchard, Maggie Orchard, Elisa Marshall, and Maria Gangl; two sons, ...
Information Please Vancouver Sun Do you know if her wonderful documentaries on Bix Beiderbecke, Artie Shaw or Hugh Hefner are available on DVD or even (horrors) VHS? ALLAN HODGSON A search of Amazon.ca showed that a limited number of Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel DVDs were ...
Midwest fest lineup: From the Bard to bacon Chicago Tribune 2-5 — Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, Davenport. The annual festival celebrating the jazz great includes a dozen bands in multiple venues, including LeClaire Park on the banks of the Mississippi River. Fees vary, 563-324-7170, bixsociety.org.
Meet the Next Louis Armstrong New Republic (blog) After all, the canonical first giant of jazz, Louis Armstrong, played the trumpet (or its sister instrument, the cornet), as did his fellow early innovators King Oliver and Bix Beiderbecke. If we think of any sound as the birth-cry of jazz, ...
Children interact with dancers Danbury News Times The difference between classical ballet and jazz technique was explained and the latter demonstrated with an excerpt from "Goose Pimples," a jazz ballet set to Bix Beiderbecke music. Dancers answered questions from the audience, and the students were ...
