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Sidney Bechet |
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Name: Sidney Bechet
| Nee: |
Sidney Joseph Bechet |
| Born: |
14 May 1897 |
| Died: |
14 May 1959 |
| Origin: |
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Instruments: |
Clarinet, Sax (Soprano) |
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| Sidney Bechet was a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. From a young age Bechet quickly mastered any musical instrument he picked up. (Some New Orleanians remembered him as a cornet hot-shot in his youth. In a 1941 early experiment in over-dubbing, he recorded on 6 different instruments. At first he decided on the clarinet as his main instrument, and Bechet remained one of jazz's greatest clarinetists for decades. However he is best remembered as the master of the soprano saxophone. Sidney Bechet was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well conceived ideas, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Sidney Bechet's playing.
Bechet had experience playing in traveling shows even before he left New Orleans at the age of 20. Never long content in one place, he alternated using Chicago, New York, and Europe as his base of operations until finally settling in France in 1950. |
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