Mandy make up your mind Clarence Williams1924

[Klaasklinkert]

One of my favotites. Yes, Bechet mostly played soprano sax, but he also played (once) the one and only jazz solo on the contrabass sarrusophone in classic jazz, and with great merit! Thank you for posting this!

[alontas]

Bechet´s solo is very good, rhythmically & armonically, and he never loses swing. The recording most probably was made acustic, for electric recordings came in 1925.

[alontas]

This extraordinary recording presents two giants of Jazz together: Louis Armstrong & Sidney Bechet. It was not very common that they played together. Both make long solos too. Bechet is even more remarkable because, though he played clarinet & saxes (he plays alto sax at the beginning, together with Satchmo), here he makes a very long solo (almost half of the song) with Sarrusophone, a double reed wind instrument that is uncommon even today.

[oldtimejazzfan]

Bechet plays soprano for sure, not alto.

[old6is]

What a nice presentation. Thanks!

One if my favourite recording sessions with Louis on top form and so powerful that he has to play away from the mike. The competition between Bechet and Armstrong does not quite create the fireworks of other recordings , but there is so much musicallity packed into this 3 mins that we can only listen in awe.

[Jazzbobill]

This is the real stuff!

If it hadn't been for these guys, there wouldn't be such great jazz around 85 years later. Nicely put together Bob.