An accomplished songwriter of Broadway musicals and jazz standards, this West Virginian man is one of the people responsible ...

Sinfonian Dimensions in Jazz concerts will be held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 20 and 21 in Bengtson Auditorium, Russell Hall on the UNI campus.

In a Commonwealth Census some decades ago a mysterious entry appeared in the “religious observance” category. In the small ...

My father named a dog “Bix” after trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. “Bix” was a great dog name. “Jem,” after Scout’s brother in To Kill a Mockingbird makes a good name for a male dog.

Leon Bismarck “Bix” Beiderbecke was an unlikely candidate for such an accolade. He was born in Davenport in 1903, the son of a prosperous German immigrant and the musically inclined daughter ...

A debate has erupted online over the correct way to eat Weet-Bix, with an Australian seeking public submissions on whether he or his wife were correct. “Ok weetbix kids, help sort an argument ...

The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits to British Television since the 1960s ...

In fact, it was aboard one of those steamers that Iowa’s own Bix Beiderbecke first met Louis Armstrong while Satchmo was playing with the on-board band. It was 1920, and that encounter changed ...