Legendary Sidney Bechet

by Sidney BECHET

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Published 1988 by RCA .
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RCA NK 86590.

The Physical Object
Statement	Sidney Bechet.
Pagination	sound cassette
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL19835901M

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Sidney Bechet was an amazing musician, and this album is a joy to listen to. One of the other reviewers mentioned the essentially Black quality of the music and I agree totally.

The jazz that emerges is so New Orleans, so silky, so mellow, so transporting/5(12). Of these 26 selections, 2 are from 32', 2 from 38', 1 from 39', 7 from 40', 13 from 41' and 1 from 52'. Many are from Bechet's various editions of the New Orleans Feetwarmers, others from Bechet's One Man Band, Tommy Ladnier's orchestra, Dr.

Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic, Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen, and the live cut from 52' with Claude Luter and his orchestra/5(20). Legendary Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur compiles tracks recorded by the storied New Orleans soprano sax and clarinet player.

Recorded in New York, Chicago, and France, these are earthy, swinging, and bluesy tracks that feature the influential Bechet just coming out of his most obscure period of the '30s to greater acclaim in the late '40s and '50s.

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If you would like to learn more about the legendary jazz pioneer Sidney Bechet, check out the autobiography Treat it Gentle, and John Chilton's book entitled Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz.

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Sidney Bechet - Blue Note Records. 22K likes. Legendary old school jazz musician. The Friday night concerts and the Saturday musical revues were extraordinary for many reasons, the foremost being that they featured the legendary Sidney Bechet and his band. It was unusual for a jazz artist of Sidney Bechet's renown to be performing at a resort as unrenowned as Allaben : St.

Martin''s Publishing Group. Sidney Bechet is a legendary figure in the history of jazz. A larger than life character, he was perhaps the only man who could hold a candle to the extraordinary talents of Louis Armstrong.

Both were natives of the melting pot that was turn of the century New Orleans. Both found themselves in Chicago, the hot bed of jazz in the early ’s. This book's charm comes from Sidney Bechet's voice that comes through on every page. I have never heard him speak but actually enjoyed reading it in my mind in a voice that I imagined he would have.

Sidney Bechet was obviously a great "musicianer" as he calls himself, but also an old soul who could really tell a story/5. “Great Encounters” are book excerpts that chronicle famous encounters among twentieth-century cultural icons. In this edition, Con Chapman, author of Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges, writes about Hodges’ early musical training, and the first meeting he had with Sidney Bechet, the influential and legendary reed player who Hodges called “tops in my book.”.

Bechet, Sidney Overview. Works: digitally restored original recordings as well as new readings of renaissance literature plus a book containing rare previously unpublished photos, artwork and writings." The legendary Sidney Bechet by Sidney Bechet.

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“Great Encounters” are book excerpts that chronicle famous encounters among twentieth-century cultural icons. In this edition, Con Chapman, author of Rabbit’s Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges, writes about Hodges’ early musical training, and the first meeting he had with Sidney Bechet, the influential and legendary reed player who Hodges called “tops in my book.”.

As part of his research for his book Mr. Jelly Roll, Alan Lomax recorded, in Aprilfirst-hand recollections by Sidney’s brother Leonard Bechet, Albert Glenny, Johnny St.

Cyr, Alphonse Picou, and Paul Dominguez, Jr., about early New Orleans jazz and Creole music. They recounted that older Creoles had avoided jazz and favored the polite. Legendary jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet passed in Over 40 years later his autobiography was published.

Using interviews from when Bechet was alive, Desmond Flower was able to create a compelling narrative that touches on it all: gunfights, playing with Louis Armstrong, getting deported from London and the early jazz music Author: Tucker Bowe.

Sidney Bechet was born in New Orleans in Mayof Creole ancestry, grew up in a middle class environment. His father, Omar, who was a shoemaker, played the flute as a hobby.

Indeed, music had an important role in the Bechet household, as Sidney's four brothers also played instruments.Sidney Bechet – Legendary. Tracklist on next page. MP3 / KBPS.

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