Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 reco
A traditionalist jazz band plays at a party in New Orleans in 2005
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyri
Beiderbecke c. 1924
The Wolverines with Beiderbecke at Doyle's Academy of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1924
Bix Beiderbecke Memorial in LeClaire Park, Davenport, Iowa