Posts Tagged Bix Beiderbecke

  • Our Bix Lives! Our Bix Lives!

    By Deb Williams Oakdale Memorial Gardens Blaring Band: Our Bix Lives! These words were the headlines in The Times Democrat on Friday August 6, 1971. It was the 40th anniversary of the death of Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke – and the birth of the Bix Jazz Festival. The Times article ...

  • The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival

    Bix & Friends JULY 22-25, 2010 It is a special moment in time... every summer, returning now for nearly 40 years. The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Society brings traditional jazz back again to the riverfront. And it is a good time. Jazz is like that; it can make friends out of strangers, bo...