From the rear cover
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. 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. 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. 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.
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- Title Sidney Bechet
- Author John Chilton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 380
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
- Date 1996-03-22
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780306806780 / 0306806789
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 5.93 x 0.85 in (22.83 x 15.06 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Jazz musicians - Biography, Bechet, Sidney
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043924
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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