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Sidney Bechet w. Blue Five: Shreveport Blues - 1923

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From my digitized LP Fontana 682 055 TL , bought by me in 1959-1961: ''Shreveport Blues'' (Bootsy-Ann Potter) - Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Rec. New York Nov. 1923 - Okeh 40006 - Mx. S-72040 - Take B. Personnel according to Brian Rust pag. 1840-1841 ( https://78records.wordpress.com/2017/06/20/free-personal-use-download-brian-rusts-complete-jazz-and-ragtime-records-1897-1942-6th-and-final-edition/ ): CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE: Tom Morris, c / John Mayfield, tb / Sidney Bechet, ss / Clarence Williams, p / Buddy Christian, bj. - Rec. New York, c. November 10, 1923 – OKEH 40006 – Mx. 72040-B. Lorenzo Tio sr. and jr. , Alphonse Picou and George Baquet, New Orleans master clarinetists, were the teachers of many of the New Orleans great clarinetists as Louis ''Big Eye'' Nelson, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Barney Bigard, Omer Simeon, Edmond Hall, Albert Nicholas, and of the four masters only George Baquet and Lorenzo Tio jr. recorded in 1920s. Sidney Bechet, one of the three greatest pupils together with Jimme Noone and Johnny Dodds, started playing clarinet, performing with many great musicians of New Orleans, as Freddy Keppard, Bunk Johnson, King Oliver and he made his first recordings in 1923-1925 with Clarence Williams' Blue Five , playing prevalently and definitively the soprano sax. The photographs and the recording in this video are more then 50 years old. Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "FAIR USE" . The intent of this video is for non profit Historic Preservation, Education.



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Sidney Joseph Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France.

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