When Sidney Bechet played, the walls trembled, the pulse accelerated and the heart skipped a beat. His music was passion and energy transformed... Sidney Bechet, 'Soprano Sax King' Sidney Bechet was ...

The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never popular in jazz until Sidney Bechet, who was the first jazz musician to use it exclusively. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong and ...

Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of jazz's most complex giants. Born in New Orleans in 1897, four years earlier than Louis Armstrong, Bechet made his first recordings in early 1920, three ...

Bob Wilber has been on the jazz scene for ages, once a student of Sidney Bechet. He has primarily focused on swing and classic jazz on his record dates, co-founding the World's Greatest Jazz Band and ...

PARIS - Jazz great Sidney Bechet's soprano saxophone sold at auction in Paris for more than $140,000. The instrument, which Bechet used to compose many of his standards, inspired the highest bid among ...

At Paris’ Olympia music hall, vaudeville was in full flower. There were acrobats, unicyclists, a juggler, Mexican guitarists. But the attraction that filled the 2,000-seat house last week was strictly ...

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 ...

Sidney Bechet’s music and prowess on the soprano saxophone was every bit as powerful, soulful, and inventive as his New Orleans compatriot Louis Armstrong, but Armstrong became the most famous jazz ...

The soprano is officially considered part of the saxophone family, but to be honest, though there are some obvious similarities with the other members of this esteemed club, playing the soprano is ...

<!-- missing image http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-spacer.jpg -->The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never ...