Jazz Clarinet history, like all others, has certain benchmarks and watershed moments that are of great importance to both the development of...

#8 - Sidney Bechet - 'Bechet's Fantasy' - 1946 One of the finest soprano saxophone recordings ever captured; a perfect represe...

Conventional wisdom and several websites suggest that Sidney Bechet played a Buescher True Tone Soprano Sax from the 1920s throughout his la...

Oh, Didn't He Ramble High Society I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say Winin' Boy Blues Stanley De Paris, trumpet Claude Jones, ...

Blues for Tommy Ladnier Summertime Pounding Heart Blues Frankie Newton, trumpet J. C.  Higgenbotham, trombone Sidney Bechet, soprano s...

Ja-Da Really The Blues When You and I Were Young, Maggie Weary Blues Tommy Ladnier, trumpet Sidney Bechet, soprano sax & clarinet ...

What a Dream Hold Tight Jungle Drums Chant in the Night Sidney Bechet, soprano sax & clarinet Ernie Caceres, baritone sax Dave Bo...

May 26, 1938 was unique in Sidney Bechet's career: on this day he recorded ten tunes, all of them entirely on the clarinet. Maybe his so...

Sweetie Dear (Jordan/Cook) I Want You Tonight (Bechet/Maxey) I've Found a New Baby (Williams/Palmer) Lay Your Racket (Bechet/Maxey) ...

After the brilliance of Sidney Bechet's playing on the recordings with the Clarence Williams Blue 5 , his releases with Noble Sissle and...

Accidents of history are a strange thing, but sometimes all we know hinges on them. Had Sidney Bechet not gotten deported from England in 19...

The Sidney Bechet/Mugsy Spanier Big Four Sweet Lorraine Lazy River  China Boy Four or Five Times That's A Plenty Squeeze Me Swee...

To this day, even the very name of Sidney Bechet evokes intense images and stories. Feisty, explosive, operatic, mellifluous; his blazing, i...

Although most of them are out of print, jazz clarinetist are startlingly well represented by highly informative autobiographies--books that ...

9. Barney Bigard & the Duke Ellington Orchestra * Mood Indigo * 1931 Barney Bigard (1906-1980) was an unusual figure in the history...

This compilation , released on the Jazz Legends label in 2004, and apparently compiled by Scott Yanow who also contributes excellent liner n...

4. Sidney Bechet * The Best of Sidney Bechet (Blue Note) This next selection was a difficult one to make, considering all of the options...

Sidney Bechet * Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet, clarinet Sidney de Paris, trumpet Vic Dickenson, trombone Art Hodes, piano George 'Pop...