Sidney Bechet

De **Sidney Bechet**, gebuer de 14. Mee 1897 zu New Orleans, a gestuerwen de 14. Mee 1959 zu Garches, war e kreolesche Sopransaxophonist a Klarinettist.

De Sidney Bechet war nieft dem Jelly Roll Morton an dem Louis Armstrong dee wichtegste Solist vun de fréie Jore vum Jazz, besonnesch dem New Orleans Jazz. Als Klarinettist a Saxophonist gouf e Virbild fir vill aner Jazzmuseker, zum Beispiell den Johnny Hodges, de Buster Bailey an den Jimmy Noone. Hie war virun allem a Frankräich populär, well en do manner dem alldeegleche Rassismus ausgesat war, wéi an den USA.

Besonnesch nom Zweete Weltkrich huet d'Paräisser Jugend, bei där den Existenzialismus grad *en vogue* war, hien als *le dieu* veréiert. Mat Stécker wéi *Petite fleur* oder *Dans la rue d'Antibes* gouf hien och beim grousse Public bekannt.

Am Januar 1957 ass hien am *Hotel Sporting* zu Lëtzebuerg mat dem franséischen Orchester André Reweliotty opgetrueden.

## Discographie
### Originaleditiounen

* Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men 10-inch album (Blue Note 1950)
* Jazz Classics, Vol. 1 10-inch album (Blue Note 1950)
* Jazz Classics, Vol. 2 10-inch album (Blue Note 1950)
* The Fabulous Sidney Bechet And His Hot Six With Sidney De Paris (Blue Note 1951)
* Days Beyond Recall 10-inch album (Blue Note 1951)
* Sidney Bechet, Vol. 1 10-inch album (Jazz Panorama 1951)
* Sidney Bechet, Vol. 2 10-inch album (Jazz Panorama 1951)
* Sidney Bechet With The Blue Note Jazz Men, Vol. 1 10-inch album (Blue Note 1951)
* Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men Vol. 2 10-inch album (Blue Note 1951)
* New Orleans Style Old And New 10-inch album (Commodore 1952)
* Immortal Performances 10-inch album (RCA Victor 1952)
* The Fabulous Sidney Bechet And His Hot Six 10-inch album (Blue Note 1952)
* Black Stick 10-inch album (Dial 1952)
* Sidney Bechet With Wally Bishop's Orchestra 10-inch album (Dial 1952)
* Sydney Bechet Solos 10-inch album (Atlantic 1952)
* The Port Of Harlem Six 10-inch album (Blue Note 1952)
* Jazz Festival Concert, Paris 1952 Vol. 1 10-inch album (Blue Note 1953)
* Jazz Festival Concert, Paris 1952 Vol. 2 10-inch album (Blue Note 1953)
* Dixie By The Fabulous Sidney Bechet 10-inch album (Blue Note 1953)
* Olympia Concert 10-inch album (Blue Note 1954)
* Sidney Bechet At Storyville, Vol. 1 10-inch album (Storyville 1954)
* Sidney Bechet At Storyville, Vol. 2 10-inch album (Storyville 1954)
* Sidney Bechet 10-inch album (Jolly Rogers 1954)
* Sidney Bechet And His New Orleans Feetwarmers 10-inch album (X 1954)
* Sidney Bechet And His Soprano Sax 10-inch album (Riverside 1955)
* King Of The Soprano Saxophone (Good Time Jazz 1955)
* La Nuit Est Une Sorcière 10-inch album (London 1955)
* Sidney Bechet with Omer Simeon Jazz A La Creole (Jazztone 1955)
* Sidney Bechet Duets (Atlantic 1956)
* Sidney Bechet with Martial Solal Young Ideas (World Pacific 1957)
* When A Soprano Meets A Piano (Inner City 1957)
* Sidney Bechet with Teddy Buckner Parisian Encounter (Vogue 1958)
* Sidney Bechet with Buck Clayton Concert At The World's Fair, Brussels (Columbia 1958)
* Sidney Bechet with Peter Bocage Jazz Nocturne 4: Bocage & Bechet In Boston With Pops Foster (Jazz Crusade 1998)
* Sidney Bechet with Bocage Jazz Nocturne 5: Bocage & Bechet In Boston (Jazz Crusade 2000).

## CD-Tipp

*The Legendary Sidney Bechet (Bluebird)* op Bluebird RCA, Aspillungen aus den 30er an de fréie 40er Joren; mat Klassiker wéi *Muskrat Ramble*, *[[Strange Fruit]]*, *What Is This Thing Called Love*, *Maple Leaf Rag*, *Mood Indigo* an dee legendäre *The Sheik of Araby* vun 1941, deen éischte Versuch vun Overdubbing op Schallplack bei deem de Bechet zwee Saxophonen, Klarinett, Bass, Batterie a Piano spillt.

## Bicher zum Theema
* Sidney Bechet: *Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography *, Da Capo Press, eng Zort Autobiographie, déi de Bechet kuerz viru sengem Doud diktéiert huet.
* John Chilton: *Sidney Bechet The Wizard of Jazz*

## Zitater
*Bechet to me was the very epitome of jazz... everything he played in his whole life was completely original. I honestly think he was the most unique man to ever be in this music.*, Duke Ellington

## Um Spaweck

D'Websäit vun der The Sidney Bechet Society, Ltd.