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Masters Of Jazz: Sidney Bechet

Masters Of Jazz: Sidney Bechet

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Language: English
Artist: Sidney Bechet
Publisher: Storyville Records

   
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Clarinettist Mezz Mezzrow was a great admirer of Sidney Bechet and in the mid forties he made many recordings featuring himself along with Bechet for his own record company, the King Jazz label. This terrific Masters Of Jazz compilation includes sessions from the Mezzrow-Bechet Septet and Quintet. In this set of recordings - made in New York in 1945 and Chicago two years later - Mezzrow supports and accentuates the ever-creative Bechet, demonstrating a pleasant rapport and dazzling interplay.

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Language:
English
Catalogue #:
STV1018509
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Songlist
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Blues Of The Roaring Twenties
Bowin' The Blues
Chicago Function Part 1
Chicago Function Part 2
Funky Butt
Gone Away Blues
Groovin' The Minor
House Party
I Want Some
I'm Speaking My Mind
Jelly Roll
Kaiser's Last Break
Minor Swoon
Out Of The Gallion
Perdido Street Stomp
Really The Blues 1
Really The Blues 2
Revolutionary Blues Part 1
Revolutionary Blues Part 2
Tommy's Blues
Where Am I?
Whoop Miss Wolf Away From The Door
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Customer Rating If Mezz Mezzrow is remembered as a clarinetist of limited abilities, he deserves full credit for recording Sidney Bechet extensively for his King Jazz label in the years 1945 through ’47. Never a great improviser, Mezzrow, however, knew instinctively how to play his lines behind and around Bechet’s majestic soprano and particularly in some slow blues tunes (most of the 22 songs are blues) Bechet seems to sweep the entire band aside with his big sound and authoritative phrasing. If you don’t need the complete King Jazz output, this cross section of 22 quintet and septet tunes gives a good example of one of the more unorthodox partnerships in jazz. A welcome ‘bonus’ is Sammy Price’s strong, two-handed piano playing on several tracks.
Anon.





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