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The definitive work on Bechet. This is one of those rare books that once started you have difficulty putting down.--Jazz Journal Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played. The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone. In a career that spanned five decades and two continents he worked with Bunk Johnson, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. He was a giant in early New Orleans jazz and a pioneer of improvisation whose contribution to the music, from the traditional to the avant-garde, has been a vital and lasting one. This biography reveals with insight and precision the man and his music, and illuminates the many events obscured by Bechet's own highly readable but factually suspect autobiography, Treat It Gentle.
Author: John Chilton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1996
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.93w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780306806780
ISBN10: 0306806789
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz
Author: John Chilton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1996
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.93w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780306806780
ISBN10: 0306806789
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz
About the Author
A professional trumpeter and jazz writer, John Chilton is the author of Billie's Blues, Who's Who of Jazz, and with Max Jones, Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story.