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	Sidney Bechet Petite Fleur Genres: Jazz, Pop 2008 collection from the Jazz great compiles some of his best works, including numerous collaborations with other Jazz stars like Earl Hines, Willie The Lion Smith, Rex Stewart and Charlie Shavers, cuts from the two origin... more » « less
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All Artists: Sidney Bechet
Title: Petite Fleur
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Definitive Spain
Release Date: 8/20/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: New Orleans Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Dixieland
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8436006493843

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2008 collection from the Jazz great compiles some of his best works, including numerous collaborations with other Jazz stars like Earl Hines, Willie The Lion Smith, Rex Stewart and Charlie Shavers, cuts from the two original One Man Band titles, and a poignant live version of his classic composition 'Petite Fleur' recorded at the celebrated Salle Pleyel in Paris, his adoptive home. Revered in France during the last decade of his life, Sidney Bechet was one of the seminal forces in the roots of New Orleans Jazz and the first musician to give the soprano sax a voice. He learned many instruments during his childhood, as shown on his 1941 One Man Band recordings, in which by means of overdubbing he is heard playing all the instruments in the group (Bill Evans would use this technique many years later on his album Conversations with Myself). 26 tracks. Definitive.

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CD Reviews

Pristine sound of Bechet classic recordings

attentive listener | Joysey | 02/27/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Of these 26 selections, 2 are from 32', 2 from 38', 1 from 39', 7 from 40', 13 from 41' and 1 from 52'. Many are from Bechet's various editions of the New Orleans Feetwarmers, others from Bechet's One Man Band, Tommy Ladnier's orchestra, Dr. Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic, Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen, and the live cut from 52' with Claude Luter and his orchestra. This is my first Bechet purchase but the selections would seem well chosen from the classic New Orleans hot pantheon and other chestnuts from the period. The sound is miles above most recordings I've heard from this period sans the live track. The sound on that one is somewhat lacking compared to the rest but the performance seems real inspired so I'm not surprised they included it and it's a mellower type closer after what seemed like an onslaught of hot jazz. I took a bit of a chance on this but it sounds great to these ears. I have some other Definitive Records releases, they're the real deal when it comes to reissuing the old stuff. Their Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong stuff is A+, too."