Word: bechet
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Record producer extraordinaire John Hammond, whose discoveries ranged from Count Basie to Bob Dylan, turned impresario in 1938 and 1939 for a pair of Carnegie Hall concerts featuring an eye-popping array of now legendary jazz, blues and gospel artists, including Basie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Joe Turner. Both concerts are available for the first time on CD, in digitally remastered sound, with 23 previously unreleased tracks thrown in to sweeten the pot. This three-disc boxed set is a platinum mine of great American music...
...PARENTS. WOODY ALLEN, 63, filmmaker, and his wife SOON-YI PREVIN, 28, have a daughter, Bechet Dumaine Allen. A spokesman for Allen would not comment on whether the couple's first child, named for jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, was adopted or biological...
...music, what Allen lacks in in clarinet technique he makes up in sheer energy and passion. He goes for what he calls a "crude" sound, based on the styles of New Orleans legends like George Lewis, Albert Burbank and Sidney Bechet. Give him an A for authenticity. Few players today can boast such a powerful tone. That's due partly to his use of an extremely hard reed (Rico No. 5, about one step down from a roof shingle) and partly to his penchant for the now obsolete Albert system of keys and fingerings, favored by all the old-timers...
This wild Irish heart has been making great rock 'n' roll for (can it be!) more than 25 years now, and this two-CD set is another great chapter in a musical autobiography that combines influences as diverse as James Joyce, Sidney Bechet, Jack Kerouac and Muddy Waters into a seamless, eccentric and wholly original sound. As Van the Man once put it himself, "Fantabulous...
This wild Irish heart has been making great rock 'n' roll for (can it be!) more than 25 years now, and this two-CD set is another great chapter in a musical autobiography that combines influences as diverse as James Joyce, Sidney Bechet, Jack Kerouac and Muddy Waters into a seamless, eccentric and wholly original sound. As Van the Man once put it himself, "Fantabulous...