That's nice, and might even've kept her from being sued. So
it's just an accident that they're both junkies? (Not that
this was uncommon among jazz players, sadly, of
course.)
Of course, this may well've been a case such as PSYCHO,
wherein Robert Bloch, having heard/read the initial reports
of Ed Gein's activities, managed to accidentally parallel
some of the as-yet unreported aspects of the case. But BB's
life, in comparison, was not an obscure bit of grotesquerie
at the time.
She knows better than I, but to claim the music alone
inspired her seems disingenuous at best. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Al Guthrie [mailto:
allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Mason" <
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com>
> Yes, it was inspired by Beiderbecke's
life.
Not according to the author. "The inspiration for the writing
of this book
[Young Man With a Horn] has been the music, but NOT the life,
of a great musician, Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, who died in the
year 1931." - attributed to Dorothy Baker on the inside page
of my 1962 Corgi edition.
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