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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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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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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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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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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Bob Wilber (section Meeting Bechet)
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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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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continued through musical partnerships with Count Basie (1940–41), Sidney Bechet (1941), and Earl Hines. Born in Xenia, Ohio, in 1906, Dickenson wanted...
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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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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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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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Max Miller (jazz musician) (section Meeting Bechet)
Raney on guitar. Miller met Sidney Bechet in 1944 when he, Smith, and Paul Edward Miller traveled to Springfield to hear Bechet perform. They sat in with...
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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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Gene Autry Frankie Avalon Charles Aznavour LaVern Baker Hank Ballard Sidney Bechet Harry Belafonte Jesse Belvin Tex Beneke Boyd Bennett Tony Bennett Chuck...
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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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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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contains the graves of some well-known people, including jazz musician Sidney Bechet, who chose to spend his last years in Garches. Garches is served by...
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Henderson 1927 581 Andy Kirk 1937–38 582 Billie Holiday 1933–37 583 Sidney Bechet 1923–36 584 Jelly-Roll Morton 1923–24 585 Louis Armstrong 1926–27 586...
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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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(1937) – Written by Clarence Williams (musician) and Sidney Bechet – Performed by Sidney Bechet Indiana (1917) – Written by Ballard MacDonald and James...
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Swiss performances of the Revue Nègre featuring Josephine Baker and Sidney Bechet; Steven C. Tracy, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University...
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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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recorded for the Mezzrow-Bechet Septet (on two consecutive dates in 1945, as Pappa Snow White, with Mezz Mezzrow, Sidney Bechet, Jimmy Blythe, Jr., Danny...
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in New York, he took advice from Will Marion Cook, Fats Waller, and Sidney Bechet. He started to play gigs in cafés and clubs in and around Washington...
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"Blues for Ste Chapelle" by Gene Harris Quartet "Blues in Paris" by Sidney Bechet "Blues on the Champs-Elysees" by Joe Newman "Blues Parisien" by Clare...
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Clarence Williams (a friend from New Orleans), the Williams Blue Five, Sidney Bechet, and blues singers Alberta Hunter, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith. In 1925...
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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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albums under his own name, beginning with a collection of tunes by Sidney Bechet, which he played on a Gibson ES-175 electric guitar with a small group...
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Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved August 3, 2021. YUDKIN, JEREMY (2010). "Review of Sidney Bechet: Treat It Gentle; The Life and Times of a Jazz Master". Yearbook for...
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