Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 - May 14, 1959) was a 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. Wikipedia
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Sidney Bechet was a proponent of Dixieland Jazz who played the clarinet and was the first person to play Jazz on a Soprano Saxophone. www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/5853/sid.html
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 mu www.emusic.com/artist/Sidney-Bechet-MP3-Download/11657512...
Largely self taught, the prodigiously talented reedman Sidney Bechet developed one of the most distinctive solo voices in jazz. But unlike fellow New Orleans jazzman Louis Armstrong , Bechet never achieved stardom in the United States. Why? Tune in and www.publicbroadcasting.net/kial/.artsmain/article/3/1036/...
"The blues, and the spirituals and the remembering, and the waiting and the suffering, and the looking at the sky watching the dark come down - that's all inside the music. The music, it's my whole story." Sidney Bechet ... Bechet started out on clar www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11821859
