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Sidney Bechet: Sidney's Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 20, 09

After Sonny White's fine rolling piano, rather like a simplified pre-boogie, sets the mood, Sidney Bechet takes a rar...

Jacques Gauthé & The Creole Rice Jazz Band: Blues for Bechet (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 26, 09

For many years, one of the unexpected pleasures of visiting New Orleans was discovering the masterful Jacques Gauthé,...

Sidney Bechet: Summertime (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music July 29, 08

Sidney Bechet's version of "Summertime" is one of the great recordings in jazz history. Bechet takes the Gershwin son...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SUMMERTIME

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Sidney Bechet: Summertime (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

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Sidney Bechet: Blue Horizon (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 21, 09

This is the ultimate mellow Sidney Bechet blues track. He gives us the richest, most sumptuous clarinet tone of his r...

Sidney Bechet: Kansas City Man Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 06, 09

Taken from Bechet's first session with pianist Clarence Williams' Blue Five, "Kansas City Man Blues" is (with "Wild C...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SOPRANO SAX

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Sidney Bechet: Viper Mad (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

What more can you ask from a song? A memorable, catchy melody, sung by O'Neill Spencer in perfect late-'20s/early '30...

Sidney Bechet: Wild Cat Blues (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

This was Sidney Bechet's first recording. Beyond the start of a tremendously important recording career, this track w...

Sidney Bechet & Martial Solal: All The Things You Are (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music January 27, 08

It must have seemed strange, in the late stages of a "war" between jazz traditionalists and supporters of the bop rev...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A HALF CENTURY OF MARTIAL SOLAL

A few years ago, on the stage of a big French jazz festival, veteran pianist Martial Solal introduced the tune he w...

Sidney Bechet: I've Found a New Baby (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 18, 07

Bechet's band, at this celebrated session, was called the "New Orleans Feetwarmers"—but it's clear from the opening c...

Louis Armstrong & Sidney Bechet: Coal Cart Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 10, 08

Since the post-Civil War development of its rich bituminous beds, West Virginia's coalfields have been as treach...

Branford Marsalis: Sidney in Da Haus (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 14, 09

The Sidney of the title is Sidney Bechet, the Creole clarinet (and soprano sax) master of early New Orleans jazz. Us...

Sidney Bechet (featuring Ernie Caceres): What a Dream (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 22, 08

November 1938 was a standout in the career of Sidney Bechet. Mid-month, he recorded "Chant in the Night," "Hold Tight...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: 12 ESSENTIAL BARITONE SAX PERFORMANCES

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Sidney Bechet: Wild Man Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 20, 09

This track has the feeling of an updated, matured, yet slightly exotic version of a classic New Orleans band performa...

Sidney Bechet: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 20, 09

With the one and only Sidney Bechet joined by the great pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, virtuoso cornetist Rex Stewart (a...

Sidney Bechet: Really the Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 16, 09

Teddy Bunn opens this track with a repeated, deep-toned figure on his guitar that sets the mood, then Tommy Ladnier t...

Sidney Bechet/Muggsy Spanier Big Four: That's A Plenty (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 14, 09

The pairing of Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier was the brainchild of Steve Smith, the president of the Hot Record So...

Sidney Bechet & Earl Hines: Blues In Thirds (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 30, 08

This classic recording fortuitously came about when a memorial session was set up in September 1940 to honor the memo...

Sidney Bechet: Save It, Pretty Mama (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 20, 09

The tune begins with a slow-tempo, beautifully balanced ensemble thematic statement, delivered almost delicately, lik...

Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 22, 09

This track is tough to rate, both because it is not really jazz and because I'm an American and the tune is quintesse...

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