Sidney Bechet was one of the first jazz virtuosos, dominating nearly every recording session in which he took part. Though his Blue Note and RCA Victor recordings are better known due to frequent ...

Sidney Bechet (pronounced Be-shay), who looks like a sleepy Pullman porter, has been talking through a clarinet for more than 40 years. Last week, in a smoky joint called Jimmy Ryan’s on Manhattan’s ...

2 David Hyde Pierce, Danielle Brooks, Ayo Edebiri and Jin Ha Will Lead YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN at Encores! On MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013 at 7:15 P.M., The Sidney Bechet Society presents Evan ...

This week marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of New Orleans native Sidney Bechet, known around the world as a jazz clarinet and soprano saxophone virtuoso. A profile by the New Orleans Jazz ...

...think Samba mixed with Tango spiced with a Rumba moving forward as it sways back and forth at the same time. It is unusual for the clarinet, the smallest and hardest-to hear-instrument in a jazz ...

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10 September 1956: Performing in Manchester, his saxophone was already at his lips as he walked on to the platform, its unique tone soon heard above the band The purifying jazz of Sidney Bechet, ...

Sidney Bechet was the original saxophone colossus. The New Orleans pioneer displayed such a larger-than-life presence on soprano saxophone and clarinet at such an early juncture in jazz history that ...

3 David Hyde Pierce, Danielle Brooks, Ayo Edebiri and Jin Ha Will Lead YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN at Encores!