Biography

Sidney Bechet was the first important jazz soloist on records in history (beating Louis Armstrong by a few months). A brilliant soprano saxophonist and clarinetist with a wide vibrato that listeners either loved or hated, Bechet's style did not evolve much through the years, but he never lost his enthusiasm or creativity. A master at both individual and collective improvisation within the genre of New Orleans jazz, Bechet was such a dominant player that trumpeters found it very difficult to play with him; he wanted to play lead and it was up to the other horns to stay out of his way. ~ Scott Yanow

Top Tracks

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• (back Home Again In) Indiana

• American Rhythm

• At A Georgia Camp Meeting

• Baby Won't You Please Come Home

• Basin Street Blues

• Bechet Creole Blues

• Bechet's Fantasy

• Bechet's Steady Rider

• Black And Blue

• Black Bottom Stomp

• Blackstick

• Blue Horizon

• Blues In My Heart

• Blues In The Air

• Blues In The Cave

• Blues In Thirds

• Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me

• Box Car Shorty

• Bugle Call Rag

• Cake Walking Babies From Home

• Copenhagen

• Days Beyond Recall

• Dear Old Southland

• Dippermouth Blues

• Down Home Rag

• Egyptian Fantasy

• En Attendant Le Jour

• Fidgety Feet

• Ghost Of The Blues

• Happy Go Lucky Blues

• High Society

• Hindustan

• Hold Tight

• Honeysuckle Rose

• House Party

• I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll

• I Got Rhythm

• I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

• I Had It But It's All Gone Now

• Indian Summer

• I've Found A New Baby

• Jackass Blues

• Ja-da

• Jelly Roll

• Laura

• Le Marchand De Poissons

• Les Oignons

• Love For Sale

• Madame Bécassine

• Maple Leaf Rag

• Milenberg Joys

• Mood Indigo

• Muskrat Ramble

• Negro Rapsodie No. 1 (voices Of The Slaves)

• Okey-doke

• Old Man Blues

• Old Stack O'lee Blues

• On The Sunny Side Of The Street

• One O'clock Jump

• Panama

• Panther Dance (tiger Rag)

• Perdido Street Blues

• Petite Fleur

• Polka Dot Rag

• Porto Rico

• Really The Blues

• Rockin' Chair

• Rose Of The Rio Grande

• Royal Garden Blues

• Runnin' Wild

• Salty Dog

• Save It, Pretty Mama

• September Song

• Shag

• Shake It And Break It

• Show Boat Medley

• Sister Kate

• Squeeze Me

• St. James Infirmary

• St. Louis Blues

• Stompy Jones

• Summertime

• Sweet Georgia Brown

• That's A-plenty

• The Sheik Of Araby

• The Mooche

• The Sheik Of Araby

• Tiger Rag

• Tin Roof Blues

• Together

• Tommy's Blues

• Twelfth Street Rag

• Up In Sidney's Flat

• V-disc Blues (bugle Call Rag/ole Miss Rag)

• Viper Mad

• Way Down Yonder In New Orleans

• Weary Blues

• Weary Way Blues

• What Is This Thing Called Love?

• When It's Sleepy Time Down South

• When The Saints Go Marching In

• Whoop Miss Wolf Away From The Door

• Wild Cat Blues

• Wolverine Blues

Discography

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• We Dig Dixieland

  Savoy

  196?

• Ammy Price and Sidney Bechet in Paris

  Brunswick

  1958

• The Fabulous Sidney Bechet

  Blue Note

  1958

• Brussels Fair '58

  Lone Hill Jazz

  1958

• When a Soprano Meets a Piano

  Inner City

  1957

• Young Ideas

  1957

• Back to Memphis

  Vogue

  1956

• With Sammy's Price's Blusicians

  Swing

  1956

• Creole Reeds

  Riverside Records

  1956

• Sidney Bechet Duets

  Atlantic

  1956

• Grand Master of the Soprano Sax and Clarinet

  Columbia

  1956

• Sidney Bechet at Storyville [Storyville]

  Storyville

  1955

• La Nuit Est une Sorciere

  London

  1955

• King of the Soprano Saxophone

  Good Time Jazz

  1955

• Jazz a la Creole

  Jazztone

  1955

• Olympia Concert, Paris 1954, Vol. 2

  Blue Note

  1954

• In Concert

  Vogue

  1954

• New Orleans Feetwarmers

  1954

• Sidney Bechet at Storyville, Vol. 1

  Storyville

  1954

• Olympia Concert, Paris

  Blue Note

  1954

• Sidney Bechet at Storyville, Vol. 2

  Storyville

  1954

• Dixie by the Fabulous Sidney Bechet

  Blue Note

  1953

• Salle Pleyel: 31 January 52

  Vogue

  1952

• New Orleans Style, Old and New

  Commodore Records

  1952

• Jazz Festival Concert, Paris 1952

  Blue Note

  1952

• Immortal Performances

  RCA

  1952

• Wally Bishop's Orchestra

  1952

• Sidney Bechet Solos

  Atlantic

  1952

• Giants of Jazz [Blue Note]

  Blue Note

  1951

• Days Beyond Recall

  Blue Note

  1951

• Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen

  Blue Note

  1950