Sidney Bechet

...hardly anyone likes every style of jazz; tastes change and hopefully expand over time. But as the book's sole epigram, from Sidney Bechet, states: "You got to be in the sun to feel the sun. It's that way with music, too." So enjoy a...

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...the romantic ballad, never more opulently than in his 1939 performance of Body and Soul. 17 Sidney Bechet: Jazz Classics Vols 1 & 2 (1939-51) deleted Bechet, a clarinettist and soprano saxophonist, had, to a greater extent than any other...

In this article: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Blue Note, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Billie Holiday

...among them) with decidedly mixed results. Of greater interest are the smaller group sessions of 1940, especially the reunion with Sidney Bechet, with whom Armstrong had played in 1923. It's a real pity that these two Crescent City masters...

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...noted yesterday. Saxophones were first used in symphonic music, but gained worldwide fame when American jazz artists such as Sidney Bechet, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker explored their sound and dynamic range. Today, saxophones are an...

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...Doc Watson concert when somebody threw out of the window a box full of old 78s. I picked one up and it said 'Sugar Blues' by Sidney Bechet. That's it! I thought it was perfect. So here I am." Sugar Blue incorporates what he has learned into...

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...jazz documentary, reports that the initial shootout started when another musician/producer told Bechet that he was playing the wrong chord and Bechet then challenged the man to a duel; critics assert, however, that Bechet was essentially...

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...Clayton Rd. Owsley's topic this time is The Great Jazz Soloists," and the course will cover the work of jazz greats including Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, John...

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...signage, repairing lagoon bridges and installing more benches. Two of the eight planned statues, of jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, already are in the park, though they will be moved to new sites. The others, yet to be...

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...to a segregated world. They decided to stay in the freedom and joy of brance. Jazz soon thrived there, with people (Josephine Baker, Sidney Bechet) drawing fame. French musicians didn't really develop their own style until Django Reihnardt...

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...Jazz officials revealed that Buckingham Palace had been included on its shortlist of venues. Jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet played at Buckingham Palace during royal command performances for George V between 1919 and...

In this article: Buckingham Palace, Kind of Blue, George V, Acker Bilk, Ben Webster, and Tubby Hayes