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    Sidney Joseph Bechet (/bɛˈʃeɪ/ beh-SHAY; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first...
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  • is a 1938 Sidney Bechet song, composed by Bechet's guitarist Leonard Ware and two session singers with claimed contributions from Bechet himself. The...
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  • Sidney Bechet. He appears in Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues and Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920. In the former, Bechet plays...
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    and financing recording sessions with Tommy Ladnier and Sidney Bechet. He recorded with Bechet as well and briefly acted as manager for Louis Armstrong...
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  • Fleur" is an instrumental written by Sidney Bechet and recorded by him in January 1952, first with the Sidney Bechet All Stars and later with Claude Luter...
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  • footballer Sidney Barthelemy (born 1942), American politician Sidney Burr Beardsley (1823–1890), justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)...
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    leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bobby Hackett, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden and Eddie Condon. In the late 1960s, he was an original...
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    George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as a fictionalized Sidney Bechet and Homicide: Life on the Street in the early to late 1990s. In 1996...
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    song, and it was performed in Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert in 1938. Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier recorded a definitive version March 28, 1940. 1922...
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  • autobiography and helped look after Armstrong during his childhood. Sidney Bechet talks about Black Benny Williams in his autobiography, as does Jelly...
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  • thread around which the stories of other major figures turn", among them Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis...
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    Boston, Hodges began to travel to New York and played with Lloyd Scott, Sidney Bechet, Luckey Roberts and Chick Webb. When Ellington wanted to expand his...
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    in New Orleans jazz from the early 20th century. He plays songs by Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, and Louis Armstrong. The...
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  • a version of George Gershwin's "Summertime" recorded by saxophonist Sidney Bechet. Lion's friend, photographer Francis Wolff, joined the label in October...
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  • the instrument had been used in the early days of jazz (notably by Sidney Bechet) it had become rare by the 1950s with the exception of Steve Lacy. Intrigued...
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  • jazz musicians. Many American jazz artists have lived in France from Sidney Bechet to Archie Shepp. These Americans would have an influence on French jazz...
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    leading French jazz musicians like Claude Luter and Claude Bolling. Sidney Bechet and Bill Coleman were American expatriates in France who are also associated...
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    then, the New Orleans style was frequently simply called "ragtime" (Sidney Bechet continued to call his music "ragtime" throughout his life), along with...
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  • – orchestrion Charlie Mariano – nadaswaram Alphonse Picou – piccolo Sidney Bechet – sarrusophone Collin Walcott – sitar Andy Narell – steel drums Django...
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  • Duke Ellington (1927), Cab Calloway (1931), Woody Guthrie (1941), and Sidney Bechet (1945). Lloyd Price recorded an R&B rendition of the song as "Stagger...
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  • Artist Title Notes BLP 7001 1951 Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen with "Wild Bill" Davison BLP 7002 1951 Sidney Bechet Jazz Classics, Vol. 1 BLP 7003 1952...
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    Monk's "Rhythm-a-Ning". The earliest known use of rhythm changes was by Sidney Bechet in his September 15, 1932 recording of "Shag" (two years after the first...
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    Williams successfully recorded groups in the New Orleans area, among them Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong. Williams, like Armstrong soon moved from New Orleans...
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    stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier. Many artists of the...
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  • or integrating into Black groups. Creole of color artists, such as Sidney Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton, helped spread Jazz; and Allen Toussaint, the...
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    Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey, and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger...
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    Astronomical Union in 2013, for the American jazz musician and composer Sidney Bechet. "Bechet". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. NASA. Retrieved 5 March 2020...
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  • the Dow Jones Industrial Average results are mixed Sidney Bechet and Martial Solal – Sidney Bechet-Martial Solal Quartet Featuring Kenny Clarke (1957)...
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  • Lyttelton illegally evaded the ban by playing and recording in London with Sidney Bechet (supposedly on "holiday") in November 1949. The erratic availability...
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    hit was a performance of "Summertime" by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies. Musicians...
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