Editing Sidney Bechet (section)

=== Legacy ===
In 2013, a [[Bechet (crater)|crater]] on Mercury was named after Bechet.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15138 |title = Bechet |publisher = [[NASA]] |work = Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature |access-date = 27 July 2021}}</ref>
[[File:Sidney Bechet 1897-1959 New Orleans Jazz Pioneer Saxophonist & Clarinetist lived here 1922.jpg|thumb|Plaque dedicated to Bechet]]
[[File:Sidney Bechet - 27 Conway Street Fitzrovia London W1T 6BW.jpg|thumb|Bechet's former home in [[London]]]]
[[File:Rue Sidney Bechet Algiers NOLA.jpg|thumb|Rue Sidney Bechet in [[New Orleans]]]]
In the novel ''[[Steppenwolf (novel)|Steppenwolf]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]], Bechet was the inspiration for the character "Pablo."<ref name=":1" />

Bechet's music has been included in the soundtracks of about 60 films, including the following: ''[[Flirting (film)|Flirting]]'' (1991), ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'' (1991), ''[[Chocolat (2000 film)|Chocolat]]'' (2000), ''[[The Quiet American (2002 film)|The Quiet American]]'' (2002), and ''[[Midnight in Paris]]'' (2011).<ref name=":1" />

[[Philip Larkin]] wrote a poem called "For Sidney Bechet." It can be found in ''The Complete Poems''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Philip |editor1-last=Burnett |editor1-first=Archie |title=The Complete Poems |date=2012 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Girouz |location=New York |isbn=978-0-374-12696-4 |page=54}}</ref> It is written about on the Philip Larkin Society website.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dickinson |first1=Peter |title=For Sidney Bechet |url=https://philiplarkin.com/poem-reviews/for-sidney-bechet/ |website=The Philip Larkin Society |access-date=6 July 2022}}</ref>

Van Morrison mentions Sidney Bechet in the song "See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee)" from the 1990 album ''[[Hymns to the Silence]]'': "...Sidney Bechet on Sunday afternoons in winter/Sidney Bechet, Sunday afternoons in winter..."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morrison |first1=Van |title=See Me Through Part II (Just A Closer Walk With Thee) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9PWbs3tKU |website=YouTube |date=September 29, 2010 |access-date=6 July 2022}}</ref>

In Antibes, France, a small one-block park is named Sidney Bechet Square in his honor. The park contains a monument with a bust of Bechet and a plaque that reads, "To Sidney BECHET, one of the world's greatest jazz musicians, so honored by his new home. - Sidney J. BARTHELEMY, Mayor of New Orleans, April 16, 1994."

A fictionalized Sidney Bechet appears in two episodes of [[George Lucas]]'s ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' portrayed by [[Jeffrey Wright]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=TheRaider.net – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |url=http://www.theraider.net/films/young_indy/credits.php |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=www.theraider.net}}</ref>

Additionally, in an interview with Woody Allen, when asked what "dead person he would like to have dinner with,"  he responded, " ... I guess maybe Sidney Bechet."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpniYxRjX3o&t=98s | title=12 Questions for Woody Allen | website=[[YouTube]] | date=November 23, 2011 }}</ref> Bechet continues to live on in the movies of Allen.