Tag: Sidney Bechet

From the Record Shelves #213 - Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis’ Mornin’From the Record Shelves #213 – Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis’ Mornin’ – Here’s another good Sidney Bechet record in the Vintage series. When he became a leader in the recording studio for the first time in his career, Sidney Bechet used the name New Orleans Feetwarmers (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #209 - I’m Through, GoodbyeFrom the Record Shelves #209 – I’m Through, Goodbye – This record is from 1966, when I was sixteen. I was working in the fields in the summer, and half of the earnings went to my mother. For the rest I bought clothes and a few records. Some time ago I met a guy that (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #207 - Georgia CabinFrom the Record Shelves #207 – Georgia Cabin – A string of pearls, or to quote the cover “outstanding performances,” could be said about this compilation. It covers almost a decade from 1932 until 1941 when eventually the American record ban put a stop (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #197 - Day Break BluesFrom the Record Shelves #197 – Day Break Blues – When interviewed late in his life, the fantastic trumpet player Jabbo Smith spoke about his morose background in the Jenkins Orphanage Band. There was another trumpet player about six years Jabbo’s senior (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #124 - Indian summerFrom the Record Shelves #124 – Indian summer. Sidney Bechet was a genius. Had he stayed with the clarinet and no other instrument he simply would have been the best, agile, expressive and energetic. But he wanted more. Maybe his early experience of (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #115 - High SocietyFrom the Record Shelves #115 – High Society. I have an extensive double CD with the Six and Seven-Eight String Band, but today I play the LP that that was my first encounter with this classic New Orleans group. When you read the line-up of the band (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #105 - Yellow Dog BluesFrom the Record Shelves #105 – Yellow Dog Blues. Number three in the Cotton Club series includes some oddities in the house bands book. W. C. Handy’s blues has been interpreted by many and here in 1928 it gets the early Duke Ellington treatment (…) read more and listenread more and listen