Sidney Bechet - The Wizard of Jazz (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed)

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. Bechet 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.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1996
First published:	April 1996
Authors:	John Chilton
Dimensions:	226 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	380
Edition:	1st Da Capo Press ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-80678-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Wind instruments > General Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Wind instruments > General Promotions
LSN:	0-306-80678-9
Barcode:	9780306806780

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