Sidney Bechet CDs

It reads splendidly on paper: Shout Factory's Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a [more]

Pete Fountain clearly enjoyed working on this reissue for it gave him an opportunity to pick 15 selections featuring some of his [more]

The extraordinary 1924 recordings with Louis Armstrong are on the first CD, plus material from his long stint with Noble Sissle. The second volume includes the complete New Orleans [more]

1921-1940. 23 classic tracks, both small and large backup bands (Fletcher Henderson). Good sound. ~ Michael Erlewine, All Music Guide

This LP was the very first release by the Stash label and, as with its first dozen or so collections, it features vintage material that deals with illicit [more]

As producer Michael Cuscuna explains in a helpful addendum, The Fabulous Sidney Bechet is a reissue of a reissue. The 1958 release combined two earlier 10" LPs recorded in [more]

This collection of Bechet tracks cut between 1932 and 1941 would be worth owning if for nothing else than the inclusion of his one-man-band recording of "Sheik of Araby," [more]

After moving to Europe for good, Sidney Bechet was revered by jazz fans on the continent and remained active until shortly before his death in 1959. These excerpts from a 1958 [more]

This entry in Classics' chronological reissue of the master takes of Bechet's early recordings finds the soprano great playing with trumpeter Tommy Ladnier and Mezz Mezzrow on the famous [more]