This weekend will be a very special one for fans of Bix Beiderbecke, jazz and music history. Sunday, March 10 is the 121 st anniversary of Bix’s birth in Davenport and this year is the 100 th ...

Downtown Davenport and the Mississippi Valley Blues Society welcome the 40th annual Blues Fest at LeClaire Park September 19-20, and Our Quad Cities News will be introducing you to some of the great ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -Start your Bix 7 experience on a high note with the free Bix Jazz & Family Jam set to be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on July 25 at Kaiserslautern Square Park, 119 East Third Street.

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- The future of the IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival may hinge on a campaign to raise $100,000 in seed money for next year"s event. "It"s very iffy that we will have a festival if ...

A. More than 1,500 jazz buffs and musicians wearing "Bix Lives" buttons gathered on Friday, Aug. 6, 1971, the 40th anniversary of Bix Beiderbecke's death. Early morning champagne was served, and ...

Joe Louis Walker has played with some of the biggest names in the blues, and his long and storied musical career was honored May 8, as the 63-year-old San Francisco native was inducted into the Blues ...

DAVENPORT -- It's the thump of the bass, the howl of the guitar, the pulsating beat of the drums and the shear passion, soul and strength of the lyrics. It's the blues. And it filled the evening ...

But wait, a blues legend Amid all the hoopla in early May about rock and roll, a blues legend came to town to play Davenport's Masonic Temple. B.B. King, who had played shows in the Quad-Cities before ...

British blues master John Mayall can still turn out a rich collection of originals and covers six decades, and approximately sixty albums, after his first songs were released in the early 1960s. Add ...