Sidney Bechet - The Chronological Classics: 1950 (2003)

Tracklist 00:00 Apple Blues 03:40 Careless Love 06:26 Moustache Gauloise 09:34 Casey Jones 12:28 Down Home Rag Artist: Sidney Bechet Title: The Chronological Classics: 1950 Year Of Release: 2003 Label: Classics [1280] Genre: Jazz, Dixieland Sidney Joseph Bechet (/bɛˈʃeɪ/ beh-SHAY; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France. Early life Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897 to a middle-class Creole of color family. Bechet’s father Omar was both a shoemaker and a flute player, and all four of his brothers were musicians as well. His older brother, Leonard Victor Bechet, was a full-time dentist and a part-time trombonist and