Sidney Bechet - The Sidney Bechet Story (2001)

Tracklist

01. Wild Cat Blues
02. Kansas City Man Blues
03. House Rent Blues (The Stomp)
04. Texas Moaner Blues
05. Mandy, Make Up Your Mind
06. I'm A Little Blackbird Looking For A Bluebird
07. Nobody Knows The Way I Feel 'Dis Morning
08. Early Every Mornin'
09. Cake Walking Babies From Home
10. Pickin' On Your Baby
11. Sweetie Dear
12. I Want You Tonight
13. I Found A New Baby
14. Lay Your Racket
15. Shag
16. Maple Leaf Rag
17. Polka Dot Rag
18. Tain't A Fit Night Out For Man Or Beast
19. I'm Just Wild About Harry
20. Dear Old Southland
21. Okey-Doke
22. Characteristic Blues
23. Blackstick
24. Southern Sunset
25. Sweet Patootie
26. Trixie Blues
27. Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
28. Jungle Drums
29. Ja Da
30. Really The Blues
31. When You And I Were Young, Maggie
32. Weary Blues
33. Summertime
34. Pounding Heart Blues
35. Oh, Didn't He Ramble?
36. High Society
37. I Thought, I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
38. Winin' Boy Blues
39. Indian Summer
40. One O'Clock Jump
41. Preachin' Blues
42. Sidney's Blues
43. Four Or Five Times
44. Lazy River
45. China Boy
46. Perdido Street Blues
47. Shake It And Break It
48. Old Man Blues
49. Wild Man Blues
50. Nobody Knows The Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin'
51. Blues In Thirds
52. Save It, Pretty Mama
53. Stompy Jones
54. Egyptian Fantasy
55. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
56. The Sheik Of Araby
57. I Know That You Know
58. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
59. I'm Coming Virginia
60. Limehouse Blues
61. Georgia Cabin
62. Strange Fruit
63. Blues In The Air
64. The Mooche
65. Twelfth Street Rag
66. Mood Indigo
67. Rose Room
68. Oh, Lady Be Good
69. What Is This Thing Called Love?
70. After You've Gone
71. V-Disc Blues
72. St. Louis Blues
73. Jazz Me Blues
74. Blue Horizon
75. Muskrat Ramble
76. Jeepers Creepers
77. Jackass Blues
78. Milenberg Joys
79. Up In Sidney's Flat
80. House Party
81. Blood On The Moon
82. Ole Miss
83. Gone Away Blues
84. Out Of The Gallion
85. Blame It On The Blues
86. Old Stack O'Lee Blues
87. Love For Sale
88. Laura
89. Tommy's Blues
90. I'm Speaking My Mind
91. I Found A New Baby
92. Fidgety Feet
93. At A Georgia Camp Meeting


This lovingly compiled four-disc box set presents many of the finest recordings by clarinet and soprano-saxophone innovator Sidney Bechet. One of Louis Armstrong's only true peers, the New Orleans-born Bechet was a bold improviser who influenced scores of jazz artists, and his talent is evident on every track here, including a rollicking take on Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag," the jaunty "Stompy Jones," and a sweltering rendition of "Summertime." For those who find this comprehensive four-disc/93-track compilation too daunting, the Bechet installment of the KEN BURNS JAZZ series is ideal.

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