An accomplished songwriter of Broadway musicals and jazz standards, this West Virginian man is one of the people responsible ...

Sinfonian Dimensions in Jazz concerts will be held at 7 p.m. on Feb. 20 and 21 in Bengtson Auditorium, Russell Hall on the UNI campus.

In a Commonwealth Census some decades ago a mysterious entry appeared in the “religious observance” category. In the small ...

My father named a dog “Bix” after trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. “Bix” was a great dog name. “Jem,” after Scout’s brother in To Kill a Mockingbird makes a good name for a male dog.

Leon Bismarck “Bix” Beiderbecke was an unlikely candidate for such an accolade. He was born in Davenport in 1903, the son of a prosperous German immigrant and the musically inclined daughter ...