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Tributes to Bix

There are a number of albums, CD’s, one 78 rpm box set, and songs which represent, in one form or another, homages to Bix. Most of these have the name Bix in the title. The Bix Beiderbecke Legacy B & W Music BWCD-3, Australia. Recorded by The New Wolverine Orchestra in 1996 and 1997 in the North Sydney Leagues Club. Every tune in this CD had been recorded by Bix in the period 1924-1930. The first tune is Fidgety Feet, the first recording ever made by Bix (with the Wolverine Orchestra), and the last tune is Bessie Couldn’t Help It, Bix’s last recording (with Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra). In between, the tunes are from the Wolverine, Jean Goldkette and

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The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society

The Facts The Society, a non-profit organization located in Davenport, Iowa, Bix’s hometown, has the goal of preserving and honoring the memory of Bix’s musical genius. The most important activity of the Society, The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, takes place every year during the last weekend of the month of July. The festivals began in 1972 and have taken place every year without interruption, even in 1995, the year of the big floods in the midwest. (LeClaire Park, one of the main venues of the festival, is located on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river and was under water). Several bands and fans from all over the world gather to keep the memory

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