Artist: Sydney Bechet
Album: Really the Blues (Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 42:32
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1,25 GB

Tracklist:

1. Sydney Bechet – Out of the Gallion (03:24)
2. Sydney Bechet – Blues of the Roaring Twenties (03:58)
3. Sydney Bechet – Tommy’s Blues (04:01)
4. Sydney Bechet – Minor Swoon (03:02)
5. Sydney Bechet – Jelly Roll (03:39)
6. Sydney Bechet – Groovin’ the Minor (03:21)
7. Sydney Bechet – Really the Blues: No. 1. — (03:11)
8. Sydney Bechet – Really the Blues: No. 2. — (02:52)
9. Sydney Bechet – Funky Butt (04:12)
10. Sydney Bechet – Perdido Street Stomp (02:20)
11. Sydney Bechet – Where Am I? (04:42)
12. Sydney Bechet – I’m Speaking My Mind (03:44)

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This remastered collection focuses on American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Sidney Bechet. His legendary quintet, the Mezzrow-Bechet Quintet, brings to life some of Bechet’s most influential and acclaimed compositions and arrangements.This is a historic album of recordings made in the late ‘40s. If ever a man qualified as a jazz master it was Bechet. He ranks perhaps as the second greatest genius in jazz history, after New Orleans’s most celebrated son, Louis Armstrong.

The most striking element of Bechet’s playing is his unremitting continuity of invention. It is as if the music is there inside him, already assembled, and he has only to put the soprano saxophone to his mouth for it all to flow forth in a joyous cascade.

Sidney Bechet was one of the great jazz virtuosi who helped perfect the art of solo improvisations.