Trivia

Bix Beiderbecke's playing of the cornet was said to sound like "bullets hitting a bell".

He may have met Louis Armstrong while both were still in their teens, though they only got to play music together in informal settings, never in concert. Bix also performed with such well known jazz personalities as the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Hoagy Carmichael, Bing Crosby, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden and more.

The first white rival to the black pioneers of Jazz.

He is the central figure in the brilliant, 2003 historical novel, "1929" by Frederick Turner. Interestingly enough, much (but certainly not all) of the material in the novel about Bix is based on fact.

His cornet solo in "Singin' the Blues" was the chief inspiration behind Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust."

Cornettist and pianist.

Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979.

One of the first of the "modern" musicians to self-destruct through alcoholism.