The complete Blue Note recordings of Sidney Bechet.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959, performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--1931-1940.

Jazz.

Jazz--1941-1950.

Jazz--1951-1960.

Saxophone music (Jazz).

Clarinet music (Jazz).

Blues (Music).

Dixieland music.

Genre:

Saxophone music (Jazz)

Clarinet music (Jazz)

Sound recordings.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Stamford, CT : Mosaic Records, [1990?]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

microgroove

mono

digital recording

Contents:

Blues for Tommy : (improv) (4:23)

Summertime / Gershwin (4:10)

Pounding heart blues : (improv) (4:00)

Careless love / W.C. Handy (3:41)

Milk cow blues / Kokomo Arnold (4:05)

Lonesone blues / Armstrong (4:04)

Dear old Southland / Layton (4:01)

Bechet's steady rider / Bechet (2:52)

Saturday night blues / Bechet (2:54)

St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (4:45)

Jazz me blues / De Landy (3:47 ; 4:15)

Blue horizon / Bechet (4:24)

Muskrat ramble / Kid Ory (3:39)

High society / C. Williams ; A.J. Piron (3:35)

Salty dog / Jackson ; Thread (4:02)

Weary blues / A. Matthews (4:19)

Jackass blues / Stitzel ; Kassel (5:05 ; 4:42)

Milenberg joys / Morton (4:18)

Lord let me in the lifeboat (3:33)

Days beyond recall / Bechet (4:48)

Porto Rico (3:09)

Up in Sidney's flat / Bechet (4:21)

Save it pretty Mama / Redman (3:08)

Way down yonder in New Orleans / Layton (3:06)

Memphis blues / W.C. Handy (2:53)

Shine / Mack ; Dabney ; Brown (2:54)

St. James Infirmary / Primrose (3:18)

Darktown Strutter's ball / Brooks (2:58 ; 3:06)

Blame it on the blues / C.L. Cooke (2:57 ; 2:54)

Old stack o'lee blues : (trad) (4:12)

Bechet's fantasy / Bechet (3:47)

Weary way blues / Cox ; Austin (3:17 ; 3:08)

Sister Kate / A.J. Piron (3:03)

Tiger rag : (ODJB) / [LaRocca] (3:06)

Tin roof blues / New Orleans Rhythm Kings (2:58)

I found a new baby / S. Williams (3:05)

Nobody knows you when you're down and out / Cox (3:07)

When the saints go marching in : (trad) (2:59)

Basin Street blues / S. Williams (3:16)

Cake walking babies / C. Williams (2:33)

At the jazz band ball (LaRocca ; Shields (3:00)

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho : (trad) (3:18)

Fidgety feet / LaRocca ; Shields (2:58)

Tailgate ramble / Mercer ; Mannone (2:51)

Copenhagen / Davis ; Melrose (2:49)

China boy / Winfree ; Boutelie (3:03)

Runnin' wild / Gibbs ; Grey ; Wood (3:05 ; 3:06)

Aint gonna give nobody none of my jelly roll / [S. & C.] Williams (3:21 ; 2:55)

Mandy, make up your mind / Clarke ; Turk ; Meyer ; Johnston (2:52)

Shim-me-sha-wobble / S. Williams (2:44)

Original Dixieland one step / LaRocca (4:13)

Avalon / DeSylva ; Rose (4:54)

That's a plenty / Pollack (4:14)

Blues my naghty sweetie gives to me / Swanstone ; McCarron ; Morgan (5:41 ; 5:53)

Ballin' the jack / Smith ; Barris (3:34 ; 3:50)

There'll be some changes made / Higgins ; Overstreet (4:03 ; 3:56)

All of me / Simons ; Marks (4:06)

Ding dong daddy / Baxter (4:28)

Black and blue / Waller ; Razaf ; Brooks (2:10 ; 3:34)

Shine / Mack ; Dabney ; Brown (4:53)

Rose of the Rio Grande / Warren ; Forman ; Leslie (4:10 ; 4:12)

Sweet Georgia Brown / Pinkard (3.579.

Participant:

Sidney Bechet, saxophone or clarinet ; other musicians.

Notes:

Mosaic: MD4-110 (on inner containers: 110).

Principally instrumental jazz; vocals on 2 tracks.

Recorded in New York City at various times between June i, 1939 and Aug. 25, 1953.

Compact discs.

Analog recordings.

Principally reissues; 13 items released for the 1st time in this country in this compilation.

This compilation released in 1985 on analog discs (MR6-110).

Program notes by Max Harrison, Art Hodes, and Michael Cuscana including bibliography and discography ([16] p. : ports.) laid in container.

OCLC:

80576854

Publisher Number:

MD4-110 Mosaic

110 Mosaic

MR6-110 Mosaic