Release Date: 05 June 2020
Label: Retrospective - Cd / Retrospective
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 710357437229
Genres: Jazz Early Jazz
Description
It was Duke Ellington who said: “Bechet to me was the very epitome of jazz”. Indeed Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) was one of the supreme talents of jazz history; as a soloist rivalled only by Louis Armstrong, and the creator of a jazz language for his favoured instrument, the soprano saxophone (as well as being an unsurpassed clarinetist). Retrospective’s Petite Fleur (the title of his biggest international hit) offers a unique 2 CD survey of an extraordinary career, from his very first issued record, Wild Cat Blues of 1923, through to highlights of his later years in Paris. In between is a sequence of unsurpassed jazz masterpieces: Really The Blues, Summertime, Indian Summer, Blues In Thirds, Egyptian Fantasy, Blue Horizon and so many more: 48 classics lasting 2 hours and 38 minutes.
June Christy
Yves Montand
Yma Sumac
Wingy Manone
Willie Smith
Vic Damone
Various
Various
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
