Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Several annual music festivals take place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, The Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival.

Notable natives of the city have included jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and former National Football League running back Roger Craig.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

* 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician ( d. 1931 )

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Leon Bismark " Bix " Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931 ) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.

Bix Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Bismark Herman and Agatha Jane ( Hilton ) Beiderbecke.

There is disagreement over whether Beiderbecke was christened Leon Bismark ( and nicknamed " Bix ") or Leon Bix.

His father was nicknamed " Bix ," as, for a time, was his older brother, Charles Burnette " Burnie " Beiderbecke.

Burnie Beiderbecke claimed that the boy was named Leon Bix and subsequent biographers have reproduced birth certificates to that effect.

In a letter to his mother when he was nine years old, Beiderbecke signed off, " frome your Leon Bix Beiderbecke not Bismark Remeber ".

Bix Beiderbecke was the youngest of three children.

From these records Bix Beiderbecke first learned to love hot jazz ; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca's horn lines.

Where Armstrong emphasized showmanship and virtuosity, Beiderbecke emphasized melody, even when improvising, and — different from Armstrong and contrary to how the Bix Beiderbecke of legend would be portrayed — he rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register.

Beiderbecke earned co-writing credit with Trumbauer on " For No Reason at All in C ", recorded under the name Tram, Bix and Eddie ( in their Three Piece Band ).

The notice appeared in October 1931 and began with a bit of hyperbole and an incorrect fact, two hallmarks of much of the subsequent writing about Beiderbecke: " The announcement of Bix Beiderbecke's death plunged all jazz musicians into despair.

In 1971, on the 40th anniversary of Beiderbecke's death, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival was founded in Davenport, Iowa, to honor the musician.

Filmed partially in the Beiderbecke home, which Avati had purchased and renovated, Bix was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2003, to mark the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society and other community organizations, spearheaded by Paul Maringelli and The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Committee, erected a plaque in Beiderbecke's honor at the apartment building in which he died in Queens.

The Bix Beiderbecke Story: The Jazz Musician in Legend, Fiction, and Fact ; A Study of the Images of Jazz in the National Culture 1930 – the Present.

" Homage to Bix ," Commentary, September 2005, pp. 65 – 68.

* Bix Beiderbecke Resources: A Creative Aural History Thesis – A series of nineteen one-half-hour radio programs from 1971.

* February 18 – First recordings by Bix Beiderbecke

He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the best known was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924 – 1929, which included, at various times, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Chauncey Morehouse, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Bill Rank, Eddie Lang, Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell, Steve Brown, Joe Venuti, and arranger Robert Ginzler among others.

* Hermann Bix ( 1914 – 1986 ), officer

His major recordings included " Krazy Kat ", " Red Hot ", " Plantation Moods ", " Trumbology ", " Tailspin ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang, and the first hit recording of " Georgia On My Mind " in 1931.

He was able to secure many important jazz records including the 1931 Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang all star session ( from ARC ), Bessie Smith's final session ( from OKeh ), a number of Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Miff Mole sides ( also from OKeh ).

The young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( which was not in fact “ original ,” but was the first “ jazz ” band to record ), and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on the young cornet player.

Carmichael appeared as an actor in a total of 14 motion pictures, always performing at least one of his songs, including Young Man with a Horn ( based on friend Bix Beiderbecke's life ) with Bacall and Kirk Douglas, and multi-Academy Award winner The Best Years of Our Lives with Myrna Loy and Fredric March ), in which he teaches a disabled veteran with metal prostheses to play " Chop Sticks ".

After Canadian filmmaker Brigitte Berman interviewed Shaw, Hoagy Carmichael, Doc Cheatham and others for her documentary film Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet ( 1981 ) about Bix Beiderbecke, she went on to create an Academy Award-winning documentary, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got ( 1985 ), featuring her interviews with Shaw, Buddy Rich, Mel Tormé, Helen Forrest and others.

His compositions include " Trumbology " ( 1927 ), " Plantation Moods " with David Rose, " Red Hot ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '" with Fats Waller, " Barbed Wire Blues ", " Troubled ", " I Like That ", " Bass Drum Dan ", " Break it Down ", " I'm Glad ", " Choo Choo ", " Sun Spots ", " Eclipse ", " Meteor ", " Krazy Kat ", " G Blues ", " Tailspin " with Jimmy Dorsey, " Crying All Day ", " Loved One ", " Apple Blossoms " with Joe Venuti, Lennie Hayton, and Eddie Lang, " Three Blind Mice " with Chauncey Morehouse, " The Mayor of Alabam '", " Flight of a Haybag ", " Cinderella's Wedding Day ", " Runnin ' Ragged ", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke in 1927, which was released as a single on Okeh, Columbia, and Parlophone.

** Bix ( film ), a 1991 Italian film about Beiderbecke

* Bismarck ( disambiguation ), Bix is a common shortened name for Bismarck

They appeared on vaudeville, radio, and early sound films, but are best remembered by later generations for their phonograph records, including many made with top big bands and jazz musicians of the era, including the bands of Jean Goldkette ( with Bix Beiderbecke ), Vincent Lopez and Ben Bernie ( Taddy Keller later married Ben Bernie's star saxophonist Jack Pettis ).

Lending his title a measure of legitimacy is the fact that in the 1920s Whiteman signed and featured great white jazz musicians including Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang ( both are seen and heard in the film ), Bix Beiderbecke ( who had left before filming began ), Frank Trumbauer and others still held in high regard.

* Young Man with a Horn ( novel ), a novel by Dorothy Baker, loosely based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke

Jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke recorded nine compositions by ODJB in various bands and orchestras from 1924 to 1930: " Fidgety Feet ", his first recording in 1924, " Tiger Rag ", " Sensation ", " Lazy Daddy ", " Ostrich Walk ", " Clarinet Marmalade ", " Singin ' the Blues " with Frankie Trumbauer and Eddie Lang, " Margie ", and " At The Jazz Band Ball ".

He met, befriended, and played with Bix Beiderbecke, the great cornetist ( and sometime pianist ) and fellow Mid-westerner.

Ted Gioia identifies cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer as early progenitors of the cool aesthetic in jazz.

Strongly influenced by cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, he was mainly self-taught on his instruments ; early on he also doubled on violin and banjo.

Shortly after, cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer also joined the band, making it one of the stellar ensembles of the day.