"Royal Garden Blues": Sidney Bechet

[Abriggs500]

That clarinetist was probably like " Oh **** this guy is good." "

[twtape]

Just great! What year is the video from?

[oldtimejazzfan]

@twtape Paris, Festival International des Arènes de Lutèce, June 16 1953

[twtape]

@oldtimejazzfan Thank you. :)

[13421JLUJ]

Here it's all about !

Thank you for this beautiful music : )

[Corrie121]

Hot music from a hot tempered genius.

Thank you for sharing this excellent post.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Darn...! I've been playing the saxophone for 25 years including the soprano and bass and I STILL can't play like this. I must have been standing behind the door when the talent was being passed out.

[stainjer]

I posted on another bechet youtube asking info about this band and its members...if anyone has info I'd like to know more...someone told me the trumphet player is my father...the newer younger musicians are a tribute to these great musicians; thank you young men! Are these available for itunes??

[ajlpode]

My father had a recording (Long play) of Bechet playing live I want to say in London but I am not sure. It was a fabulous record as you can hear the crowd going wild in the background (very similary to this). He says "hear that song When the Saints go marching in" and there is an enourmous cheer. This is just one of the many great tracks. Does this mean anything to anybody. I would love to buy a copy of this but need to indentify it first.

[AnafromNO]

@ajlpode

Regarding the recording: Humphrey Littleton recorded a studio album and recorded live with Sidney Bechet in London in 1951. This recording is available from Lake Records (UK). The following copied from site:

HUMPHREY LYTTELTON

VINTAGE HUMPHREY LYTTELTON 1948-51

LACD172

Includes recordings with Sidney Bechet & Royal Festival Hall Concert, 1951

[AnafromNO]

@ajlpode

Regarding the recording: Humphrey Littleton recorded a studio album and recorded live with Sidney Bechet in London in 1951. This recording is available from Lake Records (UK). The following copied from site:

HUMPHREY LYTTELTON

VINTAGE HUMPHREY LYTTELTON 1948-51

LACD172

Includes recordings with Sidney Bechet & Royal Festival Hall Concert, 1951

Hope this helps!

from New Orleans

[joomuck]

It is a very small world, that is, Bechet, Armstrong and Bix. Thanks for the posting.

Ted

[sirjuandabicho]

Genial, muchisimas gracias.

[cailopoohqt07]

Hmmm.. well im not going to get into an arguement over whos better.. i just LOVE this music.. makes me more and more excited for my trip to New Orleans this spring..

which btw im open to suggestions if anyone knows a good place to hear music.. not to touristy tho :) thanks yall!

and thanks for posting this!!

[djoutrage18]

Goodman may not be an originater, but we have a lot to thank him for, and he wasn't called the king of swing for nothing. Listen to the stuff he did with jess stacey and the RCA small group stuff, hopefully you'll see why he's remembered.

[secretarul]

from 2:00 "Moise" come down to earth with a few notes from GOD !!!

[jazzopator]

I love Barney Bigard too, but for versatility and inexhaustable Improvisation, nobody beats Bechet. Before, now, or after.

[ToddCMorgan]

Sidney never really lost a thing! In my mind, no one truly surpasses him as a soloist! And only a few can match him! Most aren't even close! Such a hot tone, with such perfect note choices, to make a sound that haunts you and makes the sweetest melody sound like fire! And with that vibrato combined with it all, he has a sound I've never heard anyone be able to truly copy or capture! I can't believe he's not more known these days!

[pinetreewinter]

Totally awesome!!!!!

How he picks out

those notes is

out of this world.

[nicodagger]

Amen to all the above. Coltrane loved Bechet, and with good reason

[Depravo]

Loved Bechet's soo much I transcribed it and memorized it. Thank you for posting!

[47664]

Oui,je suis à lOlympia,pour son 1000000 eme

disque,en novembre 54 ou 55 ...

QUEL BONHEUR !!!MERCI

[oldtimejazzfan]

C'était le 19 octobre 1955, le "soir où l'on cassa l'Olympia".

[1chevellelover]

Did you ever see a reed man play melody,countermelody and lead like brother Sidney like that?

[USSAult]

Yes, Benny Goodman. Listen to the 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert.

Sidney was an influence and at one time I think Benny asked him to play with his band and Sidney obliged.

[TITOMARTINO]

sorry USSault, you must be biased to compare Bechet with Goodman ! Wine to water ! Do you play some clarinet? sopsax? I play and I know.

Goodman has qualities, but none compare to Bechet's. Bechet is one of the three genius originators of Jazz musical language; Benny just came long after. The other two? Of course Armstrong and Jelly Roll. All the rest is copy of copy of copy.

[EwiekeuKlavier]

I agree completely.

[oldtimejazzfan]

@TITOMARTINO How right you are!!

[kagstyle]

@TITOMARTINO thats really stupid. so many more players contributed their own stuff

[TITOMARTINO]

@kagstyle OK, give me some names !

[kagstyle]

@TITOMARTINO fletcher henderson, duke ellington, count basie, charles mingus, james p. johnson, fats waller, willie the lion smith, john coltrane, earl hines, art tatum, teddy wilson, thelonious monk, dexter gordon, bud powell, billie holiday, dizzy gillespie, charlie parker, bix beiderbecke, eddie lang, joe venuti, django reinhardt, stephane grappelli, gene krupa, papa jo jones, roy eldrige, art blakley, ella fitzgerald, errol garner, miles davis, howard mc ghee, lester young, sonny stitt...

[TITOMARTINO]

@kagstyle your whole listing includes all geniuses of Jazz, but if you could ask them,

THEY would tell you, they all learned listening to Bechet ! 

[oldtimejazzfan]

2.52 - 2.59 just unbelievable!

[1chevellelover]

This guy was an absolute genius.Nobody sounds like him.