Sidney Bechet - The Chronological Classics: 1937-1938 (1991)

Tracklist 00:00 I’m Just Wild About Harry 02:53 Okey-Doke 05:53 Viper Mad 08:55 Sweet Patootie 12:14 I Am a Woman 15:07 What a Dream Artist: Sidney Bechet Title: The Chronological Classics: 1937-1938 Year Of Release: 1991 Label: Classics[593] Genre: Jazz, Dixieland, Early Jazz 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 fu