This CD compilation includes two separate sessions by the legendary soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet and a third date by clarinetist Claude Luter. Bechet's hearty vibrato dominates the four octet tracks, though his French band provides mor...
Personnel: Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone); Sidney De Paris, Jonah Jones (trumpet); Jimmy Archey (trombone); Buddy Weed, Don Kirkpatrick (piano); Pops Foster, Walter Page (bass); Manzie Johnson, Johnny Blowers (drums).Producer: Alfred ...
Personnel: Sidney Bechet (clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano, drums); Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone, double bass); Ernest Wilson Myers (vocals); Everett Barksdale, Charlie Howard, Bernard Addison, Carmen Mastren (guitar); Buddy Christian (...
Traces the life and career of one of the major figures of early jazz, from his youth in New Orleans through his European travels, his career in the U.S. and his later career in France.
The most valuable and moving of all jazz biographies." -Nat Hentoff A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played with such fellow jazz leg...
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