Trésors Sydney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
Trésors Sydney Bechet
- Ce mossieu qui parle
- Buddy Bolden Story
- Bechet Creole Blues
- Anita's Birthday
- Les Oignons
- Ridin' Easy Blues
- Blues In Paris
- Panther Dance (Tiger Rag)
- Orphan Annie's Blues
- Happy Go Lucky Blues
- Klook's Blues
- American Rhythm
- Out of Nowhere
- Mon homme
- Temptation Rag
- Riverboat Shuffle
- Sobbin' and Cryin'
- Everybody Loves My Baby
- Struttin' With Some Barbecue
- Sawmill Blues
- Ni queue ni tête
- Moulin à café
- Maryland My Maryland
- Careless Love Blues
- Moustache gauloise
- Francis Blues
- Casey Jones
- Blues In My Heart
- Lastic
- Madame Bécassine
- Down Home Rag
- Society Blues
- Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
- Royal Garden Blues
- In The Groove
- Promenade aux Champs-Elysées
- En attendant le jour
- Wolverine Blues
- Egyptian Fantasy
- Blues In The Cave
- Kansas City Man Blues
- Together
- Apex Blues
- Sleepy Time Gal
- Of All The Wrongs You've Done To Me
- Darling Nelly Gray
- Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
- Sidney's Wedding Day
- Ghost Of The Blues
- Strike Up The Band
- Si tu vois ma mère
- Wabash Blue
- Pattes de mouche (Mouche à miel)
- Le Marchand de poissons
- As-tu la cafard?
- Dans les rues d'Antibes
- That Old Black Magic
- Because Of You (Sans ton amour)
- Petite fleur
- I get A Kick Out Of You
- Blues
- Girl's Dance
- It's No Sin (Es-ce un péché?)
- You're Lucky To Me
- Milenberg Joys
- Blue Room
- Rockin' Chair
- Big Butter And Eggman
- My Melancholy Baby
- Limehouse Blues
- I Got The Right To Sing The Blues
- Black Bottom Stromp
- Baby's Prayer
- Lazy River
- Stars Fell On Alabama/ Lazy river
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Au clair de la lune
- Poter's Love Song
- Embraceable You
- Ol'Man River
- Show Boat Medley : Can't help loving that man, Why do I...
- You, Rascal You
- Le loup, la biche et le chevalier
PETITE FLEUR. SIDNEY BECHET - 1952
30/12/2008 : Bechet was a child prodigy in New Orleans. He was such good clarinet player that he was featured by some of the top bands in the city, when he was still a child. Bechet's style of playing clarinet and soprano sax dominated many of the bands that he played in. He played lead parts that were usually reserved for trumpets and was a master of improvisation. In 1917 he moved to Chicago. In 1919 he started playing with with Marion Cook's Syncopated Orchestra which toured Europe. While overseas he bought a soprano sax and from then on it was his main instrument. Back in the U.S. Bechet made his recording debut in 1923 with Clarence Williams and during the next two years he appeared on several of Williams' records backing up blues singers. and on a classic session with the Clarence Williams Blue Five, featuring Louis Armstrong, whom he had know as a child in New Orleans. He played in an early version of Duke Ellington's Washingtonians, but unfortunately never recorded with them. From 1925 to 1929 Bechet lived and played in Europe, playing in England, France, Germany, and Russia. While living in Paris, Bechet got into a dispute with another musican and a gun fight broke out. Three people were wounded and Sidney spent a year in a French jail as a result of the fracas. He was deported upon release from prison and went to Berlin, Germany. He could not stay in France and he would not get a visa for England so he stayed in Berlin till 1931 then joined the Noble Sissle Orchestra and returned to America. Bechet managed to keep playing during the Thirties, but he also ran an unsuccessful tailor's shop with Tommy Ladnier and made some memorable recordings with the trumpeter under the name of the New Orleans Feetwarmers. In 1938 he had a hit record of "Summertime. In the Forties Bechet worked regularly in New York with Eddie Condon and tried to start a band with Bunk Johnson. Bechet was a popular figure of the Dixieland revival of the late Forties often recording with Mezz Mezzrow. .
What a wonderful SPOUMJ
21/12/2008 : Le SPOUMJ en concert au Studio de l'Ermitage le 3 juin 2008 interprète un standard de Sidney Bechet "What a wonderful world".
What a Dream Bechet 1938
05/12/2008 : What a Dream Sidney Bechet 1938 Sidney Bechet, the first great jazz horn soloist to be featured on records, was a remarkable soprano saxophonist and clarinetist. He dominated ensembles, often taking over the role of a trumpet or cornet, and was such a dazzling soloist that he ended up being the favorite musician of both Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. The posted tune was from 1938, during a recording under his own name. Sidney Bechet and his Orchestra recorded just four tunes. In this session he was joined by Ernie Caceres on baritone sax, Dave Bowman piano, Leonard Ware electric guitar, Ed Robinson string bass and yes, the great Zutty Singleton on drums. It is so good that the tradition of playing this music is maintained by the younger generation. I was very impressed by the performance of Erik Greiffenhagen I saw this morning on youtube. Keep it up, Erik! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ohxPZzrLg
Saint Germain-des-prés de Gerard Bonal
06/11/2008 : « Dans ce formidable mouvement d?idées, ce foisonnement artistique, politique, littéraire, philosophique, théâtral qui explose à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, vers 1944-45, avec le retour de la liberté, il y a place pour tout et pour tous : la "bande à Prévert" et la "famille Sartre", les premiers tableaux de Bernard Buffet et les derniers dessins d?Antonin Artaud ; Juliette Gréco, la "Dame noire", et Cora Vaucaire, la "Dame blanche" ; le Café de Flore et le Bar Vert, les existentialistes, les communistes, les lettristes, les chanteurs, les acteurs, les réalisateurs, Jean Cocteau et Gabriel Pomerand, le Tabou et la librairie Le Divan, le jazz bop et le jazz New Orleans, Sidney Bechet et Boris Vian, Simone de Beauvoir et Marguerite Duras, les femmes du monde en robes new-look et talons aiguilles et les "rats de cave" en jupes portefeuille et baskets? Fraternité. Fraternité de façade, mais fraternité quand même. » G.B. http://www.editionsduseuil.fr/livre/saint_germain-des-pres/9782020611244
Oh didn't he ramble-Climax JB Japan 1995
24/09/2008 : Oh didn?t he ramble ? Climax Jazz Band Japan 1995 Oh didn?t he ramble is a musical recreation of a New Orleans funeral. First sang and recorded by Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet in 1939. Many of the traditional revival bands have taken this tune in their repertoire and so did we with our band. In this clip we play it during a concert in Misono Japan. Bob Erwig cornet, Pieter Meijers clarinet, Len Gosling trombone, Jack Vincken banjo, Chris Daniels vocal/bass and Jamie Aug drums.
Old Fashioned Love - Vancouver Hot Five 1999
22/07/2008 : Old Fashioned Love - Vancouver Hot Five 1999 I learned this tune years ago from the 1923 Sidney Bechet recording with Clarence Williams Blue Five, which was a beautiful classic jazztune. I was pleased to find out that our reedplayer Lloyd Arntzen, who spent his live as a folksinger, early style reedman, ( clarinet: Dodds, sop.sax: Bechet) and schoolteacher liked to sing this tune. When our surprise guest Simon Stribling joined the band for this set, you?ll hear us playing our two cornets. First behind Lloyd?s vocal with the cornets in the background ( 4 bars Simon, 4 bars me, etc. ) after that Simon take a full chorus. probably one of the nicest I heard from him, this followed by a vere sensitive solo on sop. sax by Lloyd. Too bad that our little band was only together for very few public performances, we mainly enjoyed ourselves during impromptu rehearsal sessions. Great and always reliable sousaphone work by Steve Toren. Pianist Alan Matheson, who is basically a professional jazz trumpetist, enjoyed himself to be part of our band as a member of the rhythm group. I specially liked banjoist Bill Dixon, who is my favourite because of his tone, his rhythmic timing and overall feel. He has been around. In his youth in England he was already so good that he became the first banjoist of the Kenny Ball Band. I, Bob Erwig was just happy to be part of such a great team. This performance was a first, a one only of this tune during the 1999 Vancouver Jazz Festival. They made room for our band to play one set only. I?m glad I was able to catch all of that on my little mini disc recorder with the single Sony microphone
World Poker Tour
08/07/2008 : Musique : "Sidney Bechet Golden Greats - At a Georgia Camp Meeting"
Salutation March - Magnolia JB 1989
24/06/2008 : Salutation March - Magnolia Jazz Band 1989 Recorded at the beautiful San Diego Jazz Festival in southern California we see a performance from the the Magnolia Jazz Band from Oslo, Norway. This band plays the New Orleans revival style and is considered the best in this idiom in Norway. Trombonist Gunnar Gotaas started this band. At this festival next to Gunnar the members are Anders Bjornstad tp, John Harper bjo, Morten Gunnar Larsen pno, and Bonsak Schieldrop drs. A special guest was invited for this festival. On clarinet is Jacques Gauthe from New Orleans. Jacques plays clarinet in the early New Orleans style. Originally from Paris, Jacques, in his early jazz days, had lessons from the great Sidney Bechet. Unfortunately Jacques, born in 1939, died last year June 2007. A fairly young man still, we?ll all miss him dearly.
"Petite Fleur" GIANNI SANJUST with LINO PATRUNO JAZZ SHOW
02/06/2008 : GIANNI SANJUST with LINO PATRUNO JAZZ SHOW "Petite Fleur" Gianni Sanjust (clarinet) Cinzia Gizzi (piano) Lino Patruno (banjo) Mauro Battisti (banjo) Carlo Battisti (drums). Rimini 1993 http://www.linopatruno.it http://www.cambiamusica.it http://www.michaelsupnick.com Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 -- May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist/trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong), and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing. However, Bechet's mercurial temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet was born in New Orleans. From a young age, Bechet quickly mastered any musical instrument he encountered. Some New Orleanians remembered him as a cornet hot-shot in his youth. At first he decided on the clarinet as his main instrument, and Bechet remained one of jazz's greatest clarinetists for decades. The clarinetist Jimmie Noone, who became famous in his own right, took lessons from Bechet when the latter was only thirteen-years old. Despite his prowess on clarinet, Bechet is best remembered as the first great master of the soprano saxophone. Bechet had experience playing in traveling shows even before he left New Orleans at the age of 20. Never long content in one place, he alternated using Chicago, New York, and Europe as his base of operations. Bechet was jailed[2] in Paris, France when a passerby was wounded during a pistol duel (which Bechet himself had instigated in an argument over chord changes); after serving jail time, Bechet was deported. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bechet
My Pillow and Me -High Society Jazz Band 1962
01/06/2008 : My Pillow and Me ? Billy Poole/High Society JB 1962 Billy Poole singing a tune originally recorded by Vocaliste Eva Taylor together with her husband Clarence Williams in 1922. Billy sings here together with the French High Society Jazz Band of trombonist Mowli Jospin in 1962. An amazing band where all the musicians grasp that honest and traditional atmosphere of how these early jazz bands would improvise around the singer?s melody lines. What a treat! The other musicians in the band are Pierre Merlin trumpet, Claude Rabinet trumpet, Pierre Atlan clarinet., Martine Morel piano, Christian Gervais banjo, Raymond Fonseque tuba and Michel Miroux drums. Jospin, Merlin and Rabinet played in the famous Claude Luter Band as well. This was the band that played and recorded with Sidney Bechet in the fifties.
C-Jam Blues - Barney Bigard 1968
21/05/2008 : C Jam Blues ? Barney Bigard 1968 Barney Bigard was one of these wonderful New Orleans styled clarinet players who became famous in the twenties. He, together with Omer Simeon, Albert Nicholas, Jimmy Noone, Darnell Howard and of course Sidney Bechet set the pattern. Their talents together with playing the Albert sytem clarinets created an unique style. Here we hear and see Barney in Chicago with a trio lead by pianist Art Hodes with Rails Wilson on bass and Bob Cousins on drums.
