AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Jazz Album series with a re-mastered 2CD Third release set from Sidney Bechet, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details
“Que Faites-Vous Samedi Soir?”; “Sidney Bechet With Sammy Price’s Bluesicians”; “Sidney Bechet With Andre Reweliotty & His Orchestra” and “Bravo! Sidney Bechet & Teddy Buckner”.
As jazz legends go, they don’t come much bigger than the master clarinettist and soprano saxophonist, Sidney Bechet. Bechet’s story is, of course, well known to all jazz fans, born in New Orleans, recording with Clarence Williams in 1923, even before the great Louis Armstrong, playing with all the greats of the 1930s and 40s including Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson and King Oliver. Arrested in the UK for assault, returned to the States, left again for a world tour which included Russia before settling in France (where he also served 11 months for assault). And all the while making outstanding music and largely on his own, often very forceful terms. With this THIRD and final 2CD Set from AVID we wrap up our tribute to the legendary Sidney Bechet and his remarkable performances whilst he was living in Paris. Our four albums feature Bechet performing in France in the 1940s and early 1950s for the French record label Vogue. Two albums on this set feature visiting American musicians keen to play with the great man. Pianist Sammy Price had played with Bechet before but this was the first time legendary trumpeter Teddy Buckner had got together with Bechet. The results speak for themselves. Bechet remained in France, where he had become a huge star, for the rest of his life and died there in 1959.
Check out: Sidney Bechet (AMSC1278, 1189 & AVC 994); Count Basie (AMSC1160 & 946); Duke Ellington (AMSC1158 & 1143); Sammy Price (AMSC1078); Henry “Red” Allen (AMSC1049); Benny Carter (AMSC1353 & 1048); Django Reinhardt (AMSC1020 & 920); Dixieland Jazz (AMSC988); Louis Armstrong (AMSC1083, 1082 & 903); Jelly Roll Morton (AVC890)
CD1
1-8: ‘Que Faites - Vous Samedi Soir?’
1. Everybody Loves Saturday Night
2. Laura
3. Dardanella
4. Bonjour Paris
5. El Doudou
6. Stormy Weather
7. Willow Weep For Me
8. Songe D’Automne
9-16: ‘Sidney Bechet With Sammy Price’s Bluesicians’
9. Saint Louis Blues
10. The Darktown Strutters’ Ball
11. Back Home
12. Memphis Blues
13. Yes! We Have No Bananas
14. Dinah
15. Tin Roof Blues
16. The Jazz Me Blues
17-19: ‘Sidney Bechet With André Réwéliotty And His Orchestra’
17. Quatorze Juillet
18. J’En Ai Marre
19. Down By The Old Mill Stream
CD2
1-11: ‘Sidney Bechet With André Réwéliotty And His Orchestra’
1. a) J’Ai Deux Amour b) Ce N’Est Que Votre Main, Madame
2. Au Secours
3. Premier Ball
4. Le Train Du Vieux Noir
5. Amour Perdu
6. Gypsy Love Song
7. Écoutez Le Trombone
8. Pas D’Blague
9. Soprano Blues
10. Bagatelle
11. Le Bidon
12-21: ‘Bravo! Sidney Bechet And Teddy Buckner’
12. Weary Blues
13. Ain’t Misbehavin’
14. Aubergines, Poivrons Et Sauce Tomate
15. Sugar
16. Bravo!
17. Who’s Sorry Now
18. All Of Me
19. Souvenir De La Nouvelle-Orleans
20. I Can’t Get Started
21. Blues Festival 58
