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Meanwhile please enjoy this JAZZ RHYTHM programming:

Sidney Bechet was the first to make the soprano saxophone a jazz intstrument.  He led a tumultous life and vividly expressed his emotions in music.

LOVING SIDNEY BECHET

Part One: Best of the Early Years.

SIDNEY BECHET 1A.mp3
SIDNEY BECHET 1B.mp3


Part Two:  New Orleans Feetwarmers, Bunk Johnson and Albert Nicholas, late 40s small groups.

SIDNEY BECHET 2A.mp3
SIDNEY BECHET 2B.mp3


Part Three:  Bechet's story excerpted from his autobiography and read by Peter Coyote. 

Special attention in this show to Bechet's tendency to rhapsodize is music and his partnership with Mezz Mezzrow.  Rare excerpts of the larger symphonic settings he conceived: "Night is a Sorcerer" and "La Colline du Delta."

SIDNEY BECHET 3A.mp3
SIDNEY BECHET 3B.mp3

Links:

Sidney_Bechet on Wikipedia