Sidney Bechet CDs

In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary {#Jazz}, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant [more]

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

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]

This CD features a cross-section of soprano-great Bechet's '50s European recordings. A national hero in France during this time, although relatively unknown to the general [more]

Starting in 1947 and continuing throughout the 1950s, Bill Reinhardt and his wife Ruth ran Jazz Ltd, a Chicago club that served as a haven for Dixieland. Reinhardt (a fine [more]

Eddie Condon certainly had good taste in musicians. On his legendary Town Hall Concert series (a regular weekly half-hour radio program reissued by Jazzology on double [more]