After Blue Note switched to bop in 1947, it was the end of trad jazz on the label, with the exception of a few sessions led by Sidney Bechet andGeorge Lewis. ...more about Sidney Bechet
A compendium of Bechet sides with the Blue Five, Red Onion Jazz Babies, Noble Sissle & His International Orchestra and Noble Sissle's Swingsters, provides good coverage of the clarinetist in differin ...more about Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet was jazz's first great saxophone soloist. When Alfred Lion began Blue Note Records, he made Bechet one of his cornerstone artists. ...more about Sidney Bechet