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
Cab Calloway
ANNE LENNER
WOODY GUTHRIE
Various Artists
Silvester/Ballroom Orchestra
Sarah Vaughan; Billy Eckstine; Georgie Auld; Clifford Brown; Tadd Dameron; Miles Davis; Dizzy Gille
Charlie LaVere; Jack Teagarden & his Orchestra; Charlie LaVere & his Chicagoans; Charlie LaVere & h
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
