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Sidney Bechet
Bechet at Jimmy Ryan's club, New York, 1947, photograph by William P. Gottlieb
Background information
Born
(1897-05-14)May 14, 1897 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died
May 14, 1959(1959-05-14) (aged 62) Garches, France
Genres
Jazz, New Orleans jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician, composer
Instrument(s)
Clarinet, soprano saxophone
Years active
1908–1957
Musical artist
Sidney Joseph Bechet (/bɛˈʃeɪ/beh-SHAY; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong.[1] His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France.[2]
^Yanow, Scott. "Sidney Bechet". AllMusic.com. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
^Hudson, Rob (January 14, 2008). "Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) •". Retrieved November 12, 2021.
Sidney Joseph Bechet (/bɛˈʃeɪ/ beh-SHAY; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first...
and financing recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and SidneyBechet. He recorded with Bechet as well and briefly acted as manager for Louis Armstrong...
"Blues for Ste Chapelle" by Gene Harris Quartet "Blues in Paris" by SidneyBechet "Blues on the Champs-Elysees" by Joe Newman "Blues Parisien" by Clare...
SidneyBechet. He appears in Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues and Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920. In the former, Bechet plays...
leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, SidneyBechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon. In the late 1960s, he was an original...
George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as a fictionalized SidneyBechet and Homicide: Life on the Street in the early to late 1990s. In 1996...
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Fleur" is an instrumental written by SidneyBechet and recorded by him in January 1952, first with the SidneyBechet All Stars and later with Claude Luter...
Boston, Hodges began to travel to New York and played with Lloyd Scott, SidneyBechet, Luckey Roberts and Chick Webb. When Ellington wanted to expand his...
Monk's "Rhythm-a-Ning". The earliest known use of rhythm changes was by SidneyBechet in his September 15, 1932 recording of "Shag" (two years after the first...
leading French jazz musicians like Claude Luter and Claude Bolling. SidneyBechet and Bill Coleman were American expatriates in France who are also associated...
Duke Ellington (1927), Cab Calloway (1931), Woody Guthrie (1941), and SidneyBechet (1945). Lloyd Price recorded an R&B rendition of the song as "Stagger...
Love" (Cole Porter) by Dick Hyman "Tropical Mood Meringue" (SidneyBechet) by SidneyBechet "I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones and Gus Kahn) by Django...
into black groups. Creole of color artists helped spread Jazz, such as SidneyBechet and Jelly Roll Morton, and rhythm and blues such as Allen Toussaint...
recorded the song, including the cast recording and a jazz version by SidneyBechet, but it was Louis Armstrong who first introduced the vocal version of...
Art Hodes (1941). De Paris recorded with Jelly Roll Morton (1939) and SidneyBechet (1940), and was part of the Panassie sessions in 1938. From 1947, and...
(1937) – Written by Clarence Williams (musician) and SidneyBechet – Performed by SidneyBechet Indiana (1917) – Written by Ballard MacDonald and James...
in New York, he took advice from Will Marion Cook, Fats Waller, and SidneyBechet. He started to play gigs in cafés and clubs in and around Washington...
albums under his own name, beginning with a collection of tunes by SidneyBechet, which he played on a Gibson ES-175 electric guitar with a small group...
single in 1940. The flip side is "Les Yeux Noirs". SidneyBechet – Rendez-vous avec SidneyBechet et Andre Reweliotty (1953) Tony Bennett – used the music...
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