
1
Summertime
2
Maple Leaf Rag
3
One O'Clock Jump
4
Dear Old Southland
5
Saturday Night Blues
6
Bechet's Steady Rider
7
China Boy
8
Blues in Thirds
9
Save It, Pretty Mama
10
Egyptian Fantasy
11
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
12
Coal Black Shine
13
Sheikh of Araby, The
14
Blues of Bechet
15
Limehouse Blues
16
Mood Indigo
17
Blues in the Air
18
Rose Room
19
Twelfth Street Rag
20
Jazz Me Blues
21
Blue Horizon
22
Muskrat Ramble
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Label: FABULOUS
Sidney Bechet
Blues in the Air
CD
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Although domiciled in France for much of his career, the unique Sidney Bechet was one of the most skilful and influential clarinettists in New Orleans where he was born in 1897. His style and tone set the model for the Dixieland and Trad Jazz movements of the 1950s and were hugely influential on players such as Chris Barber. This second collection of Sidney Bechet (see FABCD 135) features more of his greatest moments. Bechet was recently the subject of a Radio 2 series narrated by Warren Mitchell. Tracks include "Maple Leaf Rag", "One O' Clock Jump", "Saturday Night Blues", "Mood Indigo" and "China Boy".




