Complete Sidney Bechet 1 & 2

Sidney Bechet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WRD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sweetie Dear

2. I Want You Tonight

3. I've Found A New Baby

4. Lay Your Racket

5. Maple Leaf Rag

6. Shag

7. Ja-Da

8. Really The Blues

9. When You And I Were Young, Maggie

10. Weary Blues

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Shake It And Break It

2. Old Man Blues

3. Old Man Blues

4. Wild Man Blues

5. Wild Man Blues

6. Nobody Knows The Way I Feel Dis Mornin'

7. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor

8. Shake It And Break It

9. Saint Louis Blues

10. Blues In Thirds

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Future, March 12, 2009

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Matthew Watters (Vietnam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Sidney Bechet 1 & 2 (Audio CD)

There are archival recordings of Charlie Christian inventing bebop at Minton's around 1940-41, but if I were going to select a single date that marked the birth of modern recorded jazz, it would have to be September 6, 1940, when clarinetist Sidney Bechet, pianist Earl Hines and drummer Baby Dodds went into a studio in Chicago and recorded "Blues in Thirds". With this one track, all three blazed a trail into the future, when small-group jazz and exploratory improvisations would dominate the art form. All of everything great that would follow in the 1950s heyday of recorded jazz is here in three-minute embryo. Everything else they recorded that day, including polyrhythmic and utterly modern versions of "Stompy Jones" and "Ain't Misbehavin'", is nearly as jaw-dropping. Happy birthday!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hot jazz, warm feet, November 3, 2000

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Mark Levine "leevyne" (Jersey City, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Sidney Bechet 1 & 2 (Audio CD)

Drums include Baby Dodds, Sid Catlett, J.C. Heard, and Kenny Clarke; piano players include Earl Hines; trumpeters Henry "Red" Allen. Bechet is wonderful. And wouldn't a CD mostly comprised of selections from The New Orleans Feetwarmers make a terrific stocking stuffer!