Legendary Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: August 2, 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WA2
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,025 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #100 in Music > Jazz > New Orleans Jazz

Track Listings

1. Maple Leaf Rag

2. I've Found a New Baby

3. Weary Blues

4. Really the Blues

5. High Society

6. Indian Summer

7. Sidney's Blues

8. Shake It and Break It

9. Wild Man Blues

10. Save It, Pretty Mama

11. Stompy Jones

12. Muskrat Ramble

13. Baby Won't You Please Come Home

14. The Sheik of Araby

15. When It's Sleepy Time Down South

16. I'm Coming Virginia

17. Strange Fruit

18. Blues in the Air

19. The Mooche

20. Twelfth Street Rag

See all 22 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 Best Bechet CD I've Heard, October 29, 2009

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Johnny Hodges (Clark Fork, ID United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Legendary Sidney Bechet (Audio CD)

This is the real deal: RCA's own original masters digitally restored. So much of Bechet on CD are European labels where disks are often made from second-hand sources. The dates cover 12 different sessions between 1932 and 1941, acknowledged by most sources to be a peak period of creativity by the clarinet/soprano sax master. Some of the better known sidemen include Mezz Mezzrow (clarinet, tenor sax), Kenny Clark, Sid Catlett, Zutty Singleton & Baby Dodds (drums), Earl Hines & Jelly Roll Morton (piano), Rex Stewart & Red Allen (trumpet). The mostly bright, snappy numbers are a blast of volcanic energy, and the occasional ballads will squeeze your heart.

The sound quality is the best I've heard on a Bechet CD: bright, crisp high range that does proper justice to the cutting, agressive sound unique to Sidney. If you have any taste for traditional New Orleans flavored traditional jazz or swing, you would be nuts not to nail down a copy, especially at the ridiculously low price being charge by third party vendors. Do it now, before this materpiece disappears.

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a classic Bechet CD!, June 2, 2010

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E. Borgman (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legendary Sidney Bechet (Audio CD)

I first learned about Sidney Bechet when my jazz loving aunt gave me an LP of some of his music when I was a teenager. Some of the same tunes are on this album which one would be hard pressed to find a more perfect single Sidney Bechet CD. The sound quality is excellent and the tunes are just great! I highly recommend this album as a best of CD. It is a good one for out-and-out fans of Bechet and for people just becoming interested in this great jazz musician.

10 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, July 10, 2000

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Hunter (cola, sc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legendary Sidney Bechet (Audio CD)

Not only is Sidney the best, but this album is the best. One of the most prescious jazz albums in the 20th century!