Sidney Bechet
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306806789 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was a giant in early New Orleans jazz and a pioneer of improvisation whose contribution to the music, from the traditional to the avant-garde, has been a vital and lasting one. This biography reveals with insight and precision the man and his music, and illuminates the many events obscured by Bechet's own highly readable but factually suspect autobiography, Treat It Gentle.. In a career that spanned five decades and two continents he worked with Bunk Johnson, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897–1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone
A professional trumpeter and jazz writer, John Chilton is the author of Billie's Blues, Who's Who of Jazz, and with Max Jones, Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story.
The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone. Bechet was a giant in early New Orleans jazz and a pioneer of improvisation whose contribution to the music, from the traditional to the avant-garde, has been a vital and lasting one. In a career that spanned five decades and two continents he worked with Bunk Johnson, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. This biography reveals with insight and precision the man and his music, and illuminates the many events obscured by Bechet's own highly rea
Good information, font is a little small I'm about halfway through the book. The font is pretty small, but the content is very interesting. A lot of information about Bechet, pretty much everything you would want to get from a written source.. "Well Researched and Written Life of Jazz Great" according to D.C.Meyer. Sidney Bechet was not only one of the greatest jazz musicians ever, he was one of the most facinating characters in the music. He wrote his own poetic autobiography, "Treat It Gentle". After reading "Treat It Gentle" you might want to know even more about Bechet, and wonder how much of his stories are fact or fiction. If so, "Sidney Bechet The Wizard of Jazz" is the book for you.Br. Great Research albacorehunter The rersarch and information put into this great book is extraordinary. Chilton did a superb job about researching every part of Bechet's life, including his ancestory, childhood friends, and other hobbies besides playing playing clarinet or sax. This book is also a very fast reading biography and i find it enjoyable to read.