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The 7 mile road race is annually held during late July, in the streets of downtown Davenport, Iowa. The race was founded in 1975 by John Hudetz, a resident of Bettendorf, Iowa . After competing in the 1974 Boston Marathon , Hudetz was inspired to bring the excitement to the Quad-Cities with a race of his own.
Winning the race four times, Benoit has run the Bix 7 road race in Davenport, Iowa, annually since 1983. A bronze statue of Benoit and Bill Rodgers was erected near the Bix finish line in 2007. [15] [16] Benoit resides in Freeport, Maine, [17] where the high school athletic complex is named the "Joan Benoit Samuelson Track and Field". [18]
Bix 7 Road Race and Memorial Jazz Festival refers to a pair of related, but separate, events held on consecutive weekends: Bix 7 Road Race;
Davenport, Iowa's annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival commemorates Bix Beiderbecke, a famous jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer who was born in Davenport in 1903. It is one of the largest jazz festivals in the United States. It is held on the weekend after the Bix 7 Road Race, another local event named for Beiderbecke.
1920 78 release by the ODJB on Victor as 18717A. 1920 sheet music cover, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, New York. 1927 Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Eddie Lang version on Okeh, 40772-B. "Singin' the Blues" is a 1920 jazz composition by J. Russel Robinson, Con Conrad, Sam M. Lewis, and Joe Young.
Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke joined the group toward the end of the year after the lead cornetist left. Mecum named the group based on the fact that they so often performed the Jelly Roll Morton tune, "Wolverine Blues".
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Bix (website), a defunct contest website owned by Yahoo! Annual events named for Beiderbecke in Davenport, Iowa Bix 7 Road Race; Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival; Bix Barton, a comic book character in the British science fiction anthology magazine 2000 AD; Bix, a fictional Protoceratops in the Dinotopia books by James Gurney