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Description
Sidney Bechet was the first important jazz soloist on record in history (beating Louis Armstrong by a few months). He was brilliant soprano saxophonist and clarinetist with a wide vibrato. A master at both individual and collective improvisation within the genre of New Orleans jazz, Bechet was such a dominant player that trumpeters found it very difficult to play with him. He wanted to play lead and it was up to the other horns to stay out of his way.
This 97 track set, mastered by award-winning engineer Ted Kendall, presents the best of the early Bechet in numerous different settings: with his friend Tommy Ladnier as The New Orleans Feetwarmers, as a member of the Noble Sissle band, accompanying singers such as Lena Horne, Trixie Smith, Josh White and Grant & Wilson, and with other great names such as Charlie Shavers, Jelly Roll Morton, Meade Lux Lewis and Muggsy Spanier.
One batch of tracks, recorded with Willie 'The Lion' Smith, is notorious for generally only be available in highly degraded condition. Here, Kendall has located rare examples where the damage is mimimal, allowing clear critical analysis for the first time in decades. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Got The Bench, Got The Park
- 2. In A Cafe On The Road To Calais
- 3. Loveless Love
- 4. Basement Blues
- 5. Wha' Ya To To Me?
- 6. Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On
- 7. Sweetie Dear
- 8. I Want You Tonight
- 9. I've Found A New Baby
- 10. Lay Your Racket
- 11. Maple Leaf Rag
- 12. Shag
- 13. Under The Creole Moon
- 14. The Old Ark Is Moverin'
- 15. Loveless Love
- 16. Polka Dot Rag
- 17. That's What Love Did To Me
- 18. You Can't Live In Harlem
- 19. I Wonder Who Made Rhythm
- 20. 'Tain't A Fit Night Out For Man Or Beast
- 21. I Take To You
- 22. Rhythm Of The Broadway Moon
- 23. Bandanna Days
- 24. I'm Just Wild About Harry
- 25. Dear Old Southland
- 26. Okey-Doke
- 1. Characteristic Blues
- 2. Viper Mad
- 3. Blackstick
- 4. When The Sun Sets Down South
- 5. Sweet Patootie
- 6. Freight Train Blues
- 7. Trixie Blues
- 8. My Daddy Rocks Me - Part 1
- 9. My Daddy Rocks Me - Part 2
- 10. He May Be Your Man But He Comes To Me Sometimes
- 11. Jack, I'm Mellow
- 12. Uncle Joe
- 13. I Am A Woman
- 14. Toot It, Brother Armstrong
- 15. Blue Monday On Sugar Hill
- 16. My Unusual Man
- 17. What A Dream
- 18. Hold Tight
- 19. Jungle Drums
- 20. Chant In The Night
- 21. Ja Da
- 22. Really The Blues
- 23. When You And I Were Young, Maggie
- 24. Weary Blues
- 25. Summertime
- 1. Blues For Tommmy
- 2. Pounding Heart Blues
- 3. Magic Islands
- 4. Mayotte
- 5. Rosa Rhumba
- 6. Sous Les Palmiers
- 7. Colonel Bogey
- 8. Diane
- 9. Nana
- 10. De Nous Meme
- 11. Titte Chatte
- 12. La Belle Germaine
- 13. Ti Ralph
- 14. Meringue D'amour
- 15. Danses De Chez Nous
- 16. Oh, Didn't He Ramble?
- 17. High Society
- 18. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
- 19. Winin' Boy Blues
- 20. Indian Summer
- 21. One O'Clock Jump
- 22. Preachin' Blues
- 23. Sidney's Blues
- 24. Careless Love
- 25. Milk Cow Blues
- 1. Lonesome Blues
- 2. Dear Old Southland
- 3. Bechet, Steady Rider
- 4. Saturday Night Blues
- 5. Four Or Five Times
- 6. Sweet Lorraine
- 7. Lazy River
- 8. China Boy
- 9. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
- 10. That's A Plenty
- 11. Squeeze Me
- 12. Sweet Sue
- 13. Perdido Street Blues
- 14. 2.19 Blues
- 15. Down In Honky Tonk Town
- 16. Coal Cart Blues
- 17. Shake It And Break It
- 18. Old Man Blues
- 19. Wild Man Blues
- 20. Nobody Knows The Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin'
- 21. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
Disc 1
Side 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
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