![]() In offering an alternative vision of what jazz could be, Beiderbecke opened one of the two great paths into jazz’s future.Īrmstrong went on to a long career and international fame. In “I’m Coming Virginia” and “Singing The Blues,” Beiderbecke is reflective and coolly elegant. In “West End Blues” and “Tight Like This” Armstrong is hot and passionately dramatic. Each musician recorded his definitive performances about the same time in 1927–’28, and the contrast remains stark. In jazz history, his music stands as the first fundamental alternative in style and sensibility to Louis Armstrong. L–R: Liz Beiderbecke Hart, great niece of Bix Geri Bowers, Bix historian (behind Beiderbecke Hart) Howard Braren, president Bix Memorial Society Al Van Tieghem, museum benefactor Alexander Leon Hart, great great great nephew of Bix, grand son of Liz Beiderbecke Hart, Mayor Frank Klipsch Bix Sandke, son of Randy Sandke Randy Sandke, musician and Bix historian Carol Schaefer, project manager.īeiderbecke is museum material on several levels. 3, the first day of the 46th-annual Bix Jazz Festival. Over the weekend of July 22–23, in a ceremony attended by about 100 people, the ribbon was cut for the Beiderbecke Museum, although it will not actually open to the public until Aug. It will join will join the Glenn Miller Museum 280 miles west, in Clarinda, which has memorialized the birthplace of the famous bandleader and contemporary of Beiderbecke. ![]() That is when the new Bix Beiderbecke Museum in Davenport will showcase the state’s most fabled and mythic personification of early jazz and the jazz life of the 1920s Jazz Age. Yet there is no Museum of Ellington, nor of Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday nor, as yet, Miles Davis or John Coltrane (though plans have been announced for the last two).īy the end of August, however, there will be at least three. There is the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York, which is perhaps the most famous. You can count the number permanent American museums dedicated to the career of a single jazz musician on the fingers of one hand-and still have fingers to spare. A scene from inside the Bix Beiderbecke Museum in Davenport Iowa, which opens to the public Aug.
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