 Artist: Sidney Bechet: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Rock Discography:  The Best 2004 Year: 2004 Tracks: 14  Legendary Sidney Bechet Year: 1990 Tracks: 22  Petite fleur (1949-1957) Year: 1988 Tracks: 16  Bechet's fantasy Year: 1958 Tracks: 23 Sidney Bechet was the first important jazz soloist on records in history (thrashing Louis Armstrong by a few months). A brainy treble saxist and clarinettist with a spacious vibrato that listeners either loved or hated, Bechet's style did not develop lots through and through the old age merely he ne'er lost his enthusiasm or creativeness. A master at both private and collective extemporisation inside the genre of New Orleans jazz, Bechet was such a predominant instrumentalist that trumpeters comprise it very unmanageable to play with him. Bechet wanted to play confidential information and it was up to the early horns to remain out of his way. Sidney Bechet studied clarinet in New Orleans with Lorenzo Tio, Big Eye Louis Nelson, and George Baquet and he developed so apace that as a baby he was playing with some of the top bands in the metropolis. He even taught clarinet, and unitary of his students (Jimmie Noone) was actually two long time elder than him. In 1917, he traveled to Chicago, and in 1919 he joined Will Marion Cook's orchestra, touring Europe with Cook and receiving a outstandingly perceptive review from Ernst Ansermet. While abroad he launch a soprano adolphe Sax in a entrepot and from then on it was his main legal document. Back in the U.S., Bechet made his recording debut in 1923 with Clarence Williams and during the next two long time he appeared on records mount megrims singers, interacting with Louis Armstrong and playacting some stunning solos. He was with Duke Ellington's former orchestra for a period and at 1 point hired a whitney Young Johnny Hodges for his have band. However, from 1925-1929 Bechet was abroad, traveling as far as Russia just getting in trouble (and disbursement clink clock time) in France earlier being deported. Most of the 1930s were relatively lean times for Bechet. He worked with Noble Sissle on and sour and had a brilliant session with his New Orleans Feetwarmers in 1932 (featuring trumpeter Tommy Ladnier). But he also ran a tailor's stag which was more than notable for its cram roger Sessions than for whatever money it mightiness make. However, in 1938 he had a hit recording of "Summertime," Hugues Panassie featured Bechet on some records and before long he was signed to Bluebird where he recorded quite a few classics during the next trey years. Bechet worked regularly in New York, appeared on some of Eddie Condon's Town Hall concerts, and in 1945 he tried unsuccessfully to have a band with the vet trumpeter Bunk Johnson (whose unceasing crapulence killed the send off). Jobs began to dry up around this time, and Bechet open up what he hoped would be a music schoolhouse. He only had one main pupil, just Bob Wilber became his protégé. Sidney Bechet's fortunes changed drastically in 1949. He was invited to the Salle Pleyel Jazz Festival in Paris, caused a sensation, and decided to go for good oversea. Within a couple geezerhood he was a major famous person and a national champion in France, even though the general populace in the U.S. never did know wHO he was. Bechet's last-place decade was filled with exciting concerts, many recordings, and infrequent visits endorse to the U.S. earlier his dying from genus Cancer. His coloured (if sometimes fanciful) memoirs Treat It Gentle and John Chilton's magnificent Bechet life story The Wizard of Jazz (which traces his life intimately week by week) ar both highly recommended. Many of Sidney Bechet's recordings are currently uncommitted on CD. |
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