Bix Beiderbecke Gets a Museum in America’s (Other) Birthplace of Jazz: Iowa

By many jazz experts’ accounts, the genre had two grandfathers, separated by a little less than a thousand miles along the Mississippi River: Louis Armstrong, in New Orleans, and Leon Bismarck “Bix” Beiderbecke in Davenport, Iowa. They both played the cornet, both established styles unlike any of their contemporaries and both left an indelible mark on American music history.

Read the full story here. 

Photo Credit: David Alm