Along with Louis Armstrong, he towered over jazz in the Twenties. And, together with Louis, he brought jazz to maturity. His life loosely inspired Dorothy Baker's celebrated Thirties novel, Young Man with a Horn (later a film.)
Young Man with a Horn is a novel by Dorothy Baker published in 1938 and is loosely based on the life of jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. The book was adapted into movie starring Kirk Douglas as the trumpet player.