Sidney Bechet 1947-1949

Sidney Bechet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 15, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Distributed Lines
• ASIN: B00004WFCT
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,142,034 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Royal Garden Blues

2. Slow Blues

3. Old Fashioned Love

4. Fast Blues

5. Bugle Blues

6. Spreading Joy

7. I Had It But It's All Gone Now

8. Polka Dot Stomp

9. Kansas City Man Blues

10. Buddy Bolden Stomp

11. Song of Songs

12. My Woman's Blues

13. Song of Songs

14. Just One of Those Things

15. Love for Sale

16. Laura

17. Shake 'Em Up

18. Sister Kate

19. Tiger Rag

20. Tin Roof Blues

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of the Bechet Chronological Series!, August 20, 2002

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This review is from: Sidney Bechet 1947-1949 (Audio CD)

For my money, and to my ear, this is the best of the Bechet series on CC. The first five tracks are exquisite and unique: 5-over 6 mins. in length, with Mezz Mezzrow on clarinet and James P. Johnson streching out on stride piano, you really must hear "Royal Garden Blues," etc. If you wanted just one Bechet disc to get or give, this is the one!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Typical Bechet, October 13, 2001

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B. D. Tutt (London, UK.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sidney Bechet 1947-1949 (Audio CD)

The great New Orleans soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet recorded prolifically in the late 1940s, and this disc, part of the Classics series of chronological re-issues, provides good cross-section of his work at the time.

Tracks 6 - 9 feature Bechet with protege Bob Wilbur's Bobcats (including the young Dick Wellstood). Rather better are tracks 10 - 17, quartet performances which showpiece Bechet's more lyrical introspective side. The final four tracks are exciting performances by Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen (featuring Wild Bill Davidson).

Personally, the most interesting recordings are tracks 1 - 6. Recorded in February 1947, these are rare extended blues performances (all around 5 - 6 minutes long), originally issued on an obscure Wax LP. They feature a six piece group with Bechet partnering Mezz Mezzrow, trombonist Vernon Brown and, best of all, James P. Johnson. Johnson, in poor health by this time, was in magnificent form, and gives a fine demonstration of his blues ability while Bechet stretches out to great effect.

Recommended.