Sybil Gage's Stormy Monday Show: Sidney Bechet

4.07.2010

Sidney Bechet

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Sidney Bechet was born in New Orleans in May 1897 and started pioneering Jazz early on with his great solos. Best remembered for being the first great soprano saxophonist, he was discovered at the age of six, became huge in Europe and yet never forgot his Creole roots.

Bechet died in Paris in 1959 on his 62nd birthday, seven years after returning to France and shortly after completing his autobiography Treat It Gentle.

There's a wide variety of his music still out there, and the active Sidney Bechet Society still promotes his music to the growing fans of Jazz. If you haven't heard him before, let me introduce you to one of the great soloist that made Jazz what it is today.

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