Mandy make up your mind Clarence Williams1924
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Mandy, Make up your Mind - Clarence Williams 1924
In December 1924 jazz promotor, pianist and bandleader Clarence Williams decided to choose two of the most promising young musicians to make a recording . Originally from the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans, he asked Louis Armstrong on cornet and Sidney Bechet on soprano saxophone to join him in this recording session. Bechet, always the creative young man, decided to bring a new instrument, a bass-sarrusaphone, invented in 1856 by Pierre Gautrot to replace the oboe and the bassoon which lacked the power required for outdoor band music. Originally a double reed instrument it was later replaced with a single reed mouthpiece, similar to those used on soprano saxophones. The fingering is like that of a saxophone as well.
In the recording are also Charlie Irvis trombone, Buddy Christian banjo and the vocal is by Clarence wife Eva Taylor, one of the most succesful singers of that time.
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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!
Klaasklinkert 1 year ago
Bechet plays soprano for sure, not alto.
oldtimejazzfan 2 years ago
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 2 years ago
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.
alontas 2 years ago
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.
old6is 2 years ago
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.
Jazzbobill 2 years ago