on August 5 and 6, Rhythm City will host a trio of engagements with the nascent jazz talents of the Bix Youth Band, who will perform at 6 p.m. With concerts taking place from 6 to 9:45 p.m. Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport IAĪn eagerly awaited weekend of live performances returning to the Quad Cities for the 51st time, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival will, from August 4 through 6, again enjoy residency at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, with the Davenport venue hosting no fewer than 25 individual sets by nine assemblages of thrilling jazz talents. Curtis N.Thursday, August 4, through Saturday, August 6.Darrell Bishop as Andy Secrest, a jazz cornet player.Henderson as Pee Wee Russell, a jazz clarinettist Sally Groth as Liza, Bix' alleged fiancée.Barbara Wilder as Marie Louise Beiderbecke, Bix' sister.Mark Sovel as Frankie Trumbauer, a jazz saxophone player.Ray Edelstein as Bismark Beiderbecke, Bix' father.Matthew Buzzell as Don Murray, a jazz clarinettist.Gayla Goehl as Kitty, Hoagy Carmichael's girlfriend.Romano Orzari as Hoagy Carmichael, a pianist and jazz band leader.Mark Collver as Burnie Beiderbecke, Bix' brother.Julia Ewing as Agatha 'Aggie' Beiderbecke, Bix' mother.Emile Levisetti as Joe Venuti, a jazz violin player, Bix' friend.Bryant Weeks as Leon Bismark 'Bix' Beiderbecke, a cornet and piano player (1903-1931).
During the closing credits, photos of Bix and Liza are shown in the Beiderbecke family home alongside those of his father and mother. The film ends with Bix's untimely death in 1931 in New York City. Bix achieved success when he performed and recorded with the orchestra of Frank Trumbauer who, despite his somewhat peculiar character, took him under his protective wing.
Bix was hampered by the fact that he could not read music but played by ear. Venuti will take advantage of it to tell her, in addition to the way in which Bix came into contact with her, the short but intense life of his friend, who he had met by chance while trying to get an engagement in the Jean Goldkette orchestra. He contacts the girl and convinces her to follow him to the trumpeter's hometown, Davenport, Iowa, thus fulfilling Bix's mother's desire, who is eager to meet her.ĭuring the long train journey, however, it turns out that Liza never met Bix. Venuti, despite the initial hesitation, decides to help him in the investigation. His investigations of where Bix worked led him to the Italian-American violinist Joe Venuti, the trumpeter's only true friend and therefore unique in knowing the truth and the identity of the girl. His brother Burnie arrives in the city to meet Liza, who was to be the future bride of the deceased brother. The film opens in October 1931 in New York City, two months after the death of Bix Beiderbecke. The film focuses on his conflicts with his family and his relations with the prominent jazz musicians of the 1920s, such as Hoagy Carmichael, Joe Venuti, Pee Wee Russell, Don Murray, and Paul Whiteman. Mark Sovel plays his friend and collaborator, saxophonist and bandleader Frankie Trumbauer. Bryant Weeks plays American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke in an account of his life.
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