Sidney Bechet 1945 1946

Sidney Bechet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 1997)
• Original Release Date: December 23, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Corporation
• ASIN: B000001NUC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #975,469 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. High Society

2. Salty Dog

3. Weary Blues

4. Jackass Blues

5. Milenberg Joys

6. Lord Let Me in the Lifeboat

7. Days Beyond Recall

8. Porto Rico

9. Up in Sidney's Flat

10. Quincy Street Stomp (Blame It on the Blues)

11. Old Stack O'Lee Blues

12. Bechet's Fantasy

13. Weary Way Blues

14. As Long as I Live

15. I'm a Little Piece of Leather

16. St. Louis Blues

17. Jazz Me Blues

18. Ballin' the Jack

19. I'll Never Be the Same

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars sidney and stella, September 11, 2005

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mark weiss (Palo Alto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sidney Bechet 1945 1946 (Audio CD)

This cd is notable for the appearance on the final six tracks of vocalist Stella Brooks. Brooks was from the West Coast, became popular as a jazz singer in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1930s and 1940s, and then returned to San Francisco and ultimately lived a humble quiet life until she died recently at 90 years of age. She was known to be the spunky sidekick of Billie Holliday, and also befriended Woody Guthrie and Marlon Brando. Smithsonian Folkways also has these six tracks on a cd of vocalists of the 1940s, actually a split cd with Greta Wright, an Austrian diva of the day. Stella's trademark song was "I'm A Little Piece of Leather" ('...very well put together...') although this song seems to be credited variously to her or other composers. (It appears on a Peattie Wheatstraw cd which makes me want to guess that it's an old blues and predates them both...the Beatles covered about 45 seconds of it in some early unreleased BBC tapes...)

Stella Brooks seems too interesting to disappear completely into history. (She's also on some re-released Stuff Smith sessions...)

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Good Bechet Disc., August 20, 2002

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This review is from: Sidney Bechet 1945 1946 (Audio CD)

This is a good Bechet disc, again featuring some longer tracks of over 4 mins. duration. Worth having.