The first place Chris Beiderbecke learned of his great-uncle Bix Beiderbecke’s fame was from a World Book Encyclopedia. Beiderbecke, in grade school at the time, looked up his last name while in the ...

Known among his fellow Dixieland jazz fans as “the Fastest Washboard in the East," Bill Donahoe died May 22nd in Lady Lake, Florida. He was 83 years old. Introduced to the music of Bix Beiderbecke by ...

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. -- Richard Bix Beiderbecke, of Jacksonville, Ill., passed away peacefully Sunday afternoon, Sept. 5, 2004, at Passavant Hospital in Jacksonville after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Driven by the spirit of Bix Beiderbecke, Dick Sudhalter was a talented cornettist and an accomplished author. The remorseless research that he did on Beiderbecke was so intense that it caused a ...