Treat It Gentle: An Autobiography (A Da Capo paperback)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (710 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306800861 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) was one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz. A prodigy on the clarinet, he soloed with Bunk Johnson's orchestra at age eleven, was improvising cornet-clarinet duos with Buddy Petit at age fifteen. Leaving New Orleans in the 1920s, Bechet took his Creole sound and spirit to New York, where he a
"One of the most eloquent autobiographies ever written by an American artist." -- -Martin Williams
Unlike most jazz musicians, whose musical lives often end at 40, Bechet remained musically active into his 60s, adapting his style to each successive peak of jazz history, and reaching his peak in the New Orleans Revival of the 1940s and early 1950s. This autobiography was taken down in interviews with John Ciardi and Joan Reid, and put into book form by Desmond Flower. He was a keen observer of the jazz scene and his memoirs feature numerous profiles of the men and women who helped jazz grow and develop: Buddy Bolden, Bessie Smith, Manuel Perez, Cl
David H. Kline said Truth in Jazz. Whether you're a musician, especially if you are, read this! Sidney Bechet is not an educated writer, thank goodness, but his spare language is as powerful and moving as his music. He goes straight to the heart of the matter, his own soul, for the truth in jazz which he says belongs to everyone. If y. Jonathan A. Weiss said The Greatest Jazz Biography. Sicney Bechet was one of the few geniuses jazz has produced. His authobioraphy is the best book anyone has published about the roots, development and meaning of jazz. His accounts of racial struggles, his travels, and most of all. his opinions about music and musicians provide more and more unique in. "Poetic Autobiography from Jazz Virtuoso" according to D.C.Meyer. New Orleans born clarinet and sax player Sidney Bechet was one of the all time great jazz musicians. Duke Ellington said "Bechet to me was the very epitome of jazzhe was the most unique man ever to be in this music". Lil Hardin Armstrong (Louis Armstrong's wife) said that Bechet deserved to be as fam