Bix Beiderbecke by Ted McElhiney 2000

Quad-City Times Building
500 East 3rd St.
Davenport, Iowa 52801

This life-sized bronze depicts Bix Beiderbecke, famed jazz musician from Davenport. He is seated on a low wall behind the statues of two champions of the Quad-City Times Bix 7 race: Joan Benoit Samuelson and Bill Rogers. The Bix 7 race is part of the annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival celebration.