Join us for the 21st Annual Bix Beiderbecke JAZZ Memorial Concert
Sunday, August 10th, 2025 – 2pm-6pm
Under the Sunnyside Arch - On 46th St btwn Queens Blvd and 47th Ave
Featuring: HONK NYC’s BIXology and Sunnyside Social Club!!
The annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Concert is back in Sunnyside for the 21st year, featuring 2 wonderful bands, HONK NYC’s BIXology & Sunnyside Social Club! This event is sponsored by the Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District to honor Bix Beiderbecke, one of the most renowned jazz musicians of the 1920s and a one-time resident of Sunnyside.
Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke
Born March 10, 1903, and died at his home on 46th Street on August. 6, 1931 at the early age of 28. He was one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 1920s. He possessed a beautiful, distinctive tone and a strikingly original improvisational style. His equal among cornetists in the '20s was Louis Armstrong, but due to their different styles one should not compare them. Bix was a child prodigy, picking out tunes on the piano when he was only three-years-old. At age 16, influenced by recordings of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Bix taught himself to play the cornet largely by ear. He first recorded with The Wolverines in 1924 and performed with them in the Cinderella Ballroom at 1600 Broadway in the heart of Times Square. Their first record was Fidgety Feet. After leaving the Wolverines, Bix played with Frank Trumbauer in the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra, then worked briefly in Adrian Rollini's band, and later in he joined the best-known and most prestigious dance orchestra in the country, the New York based Paul Whiteman Orchestra. It is during that period when Bix performed alongside Bing Crosby, The Dorsey brothers and Jack Teagarden, until 1930 when he left due to illness.
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