Sidney Bechet: Summertime - Jazz Reference (CD)

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)

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Label:: Dreyfus
UPC/EAN:: 3460503671225
Erscheinungstermin:: 21.1.2002

Such an extraordinary and marvellous destiny was traced for this pioneer of jazz who, during the last ten years of his life, became a prominent star in France on a par with the celebrities of song. The life of Sidney Bechet, of New Orleans birth, is comparable to a fairy tale with certain episodes extracted from gloomier literature. His teenage debut in his home town, the encounter with the first legends, Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, King Oliver and then very rapidly, curiosity and crazy ambition drew him to Europe for the first time in 1919. “How moving it was to meet this fat black boy, who is really pleased that his music is appreciated, but who cannot say anything of his art, apart from that he is following his ‘own way’, and when you think that this ‘own way’ is perhaps the wide avenue which will engulf the world tomorrow”, wrote the classical conductor Ernest Ansermet.

After an unfortunate shooting scrape in 1928 in Paris’ Pigalle district then some needy moments in New York where he sold and patched worn clothes, he continued to follow this regal route with pride and steadfastness, forever coming over as a powerfully lyrical soloist irresistible to all who heard him and as the most prominent specialist of the soprano saxophone. His true glory lay in delighting both the pure fanatics as well as the millions of lightsome young dames who, lost in a reverie, danced to his music.