The New Venue
The 46th annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival took place on Thursday, August 3, through Saturday, August 5, at its third change of venue in as many years: the recently-opened Rhythm City Casino Resort in Davenport, Iowa. The casino is in an incongruous location: amid cornfields instead of on the Mississippi River like others in the area, and highly visible (but not directly accessible) from Interstate 80. I was initially put off by the site and garishness of the place, but after hearing several music sets and finding that I didn’t have to leave the premises for meals, I was won over.
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