Sidney Bechet - Saga Jazz: From New Orleans to Paris (& Vice Versa) (2003)

A marginal wherever the margin, Bechet was a flamboyant rebel throughout an existence filled with eclipses an itinerant hoodlum. Like Josephine Baker, with whom he triumphed in 1924 in the Parisian “Revue Nègre”, the saxophonist with a febrile vibrato had only two loves: New Orleans and Paris. He left his native city, where he met the pioneers of jazz, when he was still quite young, in 1917, and travelled the world. In 1929, after a fight in the Pigalle Quarter in Paris, he was thrown into jail, deported, and banned from returning. He only came back to the French capital in 1949, and quickly became an immense star, carried on the wave of the “New Orleans Revival”. He’d come full circle.

Tracklist:
1-1. Sidney Bechet - Buddy Bolden Story Discours Entre Sidney Et Claude Luter (03:40)
1-2. Sidney Bechet - Les Oignons (02:43)
1-3. Sidney Bechet - Wild Cat Blues (03:01)
1-4. Sidney Bechet - Old Fashioned Love (03:11)
1-5. Sidney Bechet - Mandy Make Up Your Mind (03:11)
1-6. Sidney Bechet - In Harlem's Araby (03:11)
1-7. Sidney Bechet - The Basement Blues (03:20)
1-8. Sidney Bechet - Sweetie Dear (02:52)
1-9. Sidney Bechet - Maple Leaf Rag (02:57)
1-10. Sidney Bechet - Shag (03:07)
1-11. Sidney Bechet - Polka Dot Rag (02:53)
1-12. Sidney Bechet - Characteristic Blues (02:56)
1-13. Sidney Bechet - Chant In The Night (02:25)
1-14. Sidney Bechet - Really The Blues (03:38)
1-15. Sidney Bechet - The Weary Blues (02:04)
1-16. Sidney Bechet - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (02:24)
1-17. Sidney Bechet - Down In Honky Tonk Town (03:02)
1-18. Sidney Bechet - Blues In Thirds (02:58)
1-19. Sidney Bechet - Bechet Parades The Blues Eng 9 Dec 1943 New York (04:16)
1-20. Sidney Bechet - Klook's Blues (03:21)
1-21. Sidney Bechet - Dans les rues d'Antibes (03:28)
1-22. Sidney Bechet - September Song (02:28)
1-23. Sidney Bechet - Summertime (03:21)
1-24. Sidney Bechet - Petite Fleur (03:12)