Shutterbug Friday #6:Francis Wolff and the Empire of Cool (Vol. 3)
Rudy Van Gelder Sidney Bechet Alfred Lion and Thelonious Monk Eric Dolphy and Kenny Dorham Sonny Clark and Philly Joe Jones Clifford Brown and Percy Heath Eddie McFadden, Jimmy Smith and Donald Bailey Blue Mitchell and Chick Corea Howard McGhee, Gigi Gryce and Tal Farlow Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke and Gil Coggins Dexter Gordon Pops Foster, Sidney Bechet, Art Hodes and Al Nicholas Dave Burns, James Moody, Cecil Payne Johnny Griffin, John Coltrane and Hank Mobley Jackie McLean and Miles…
Bobby Jaspar is all but forgotten today. Back in the late 1950s, the Belgian tenor saxophonist recorded with Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Costa, J.J. Johnson, Herbie Mann and many other notable New York jazz artists of the period. Married...
The challenge of talking about any music is compounded when the subject is jazz, a word of clouded origins whose meaning reflects an evolution of astounding rapidity and imposing diversity. The meaning of the word, like the music it represents, has evolved over time
A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 3000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
Sidney Joseph Bechet (1897-1959) - Find A Grave...
Musician. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was leadgenary jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He began as child touring and traveling, going as far north as Chicago, east to New York and joined Syncopated Orchestra, journeyed to Europe to perform at the Royal Philharmonic Hall in 1919. During the 1920s and...
Sidney Bechet with André Réwéliotty and his orchestra playing "Rose de Picardie" by Hayden Wood, from the album "Mack The Knife", recorded in the 1950s
Sudbey Bechet Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897 to a middle-class Creole of color family. Sidney's older brother Leonard Victor Bechet (1877–1952) was a full-time dentist and a part-time trombonist and bandleader. Sidney Bechet quickly learned to play several musical instruments kept around the house, mostly by teaching himself; he soon decided to specialize in clarinet.
