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Legendary Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur

Sidney Bechet
1 disc

1. Maple Leaf Rag
2. I've Found a New Baby
3. Weary Blues
4. Really the Blues
5. High Society
6. Indian Summer
7. Sidney's Blues
8. Shake It and Break It
9. Wild Man Blues
10. Save It, Pretty Mama
11. Stompy Jones
12. Muskrat Ramble
13. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
14. Sheik of Araby, The
15. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
16. I'm Coming Virginia
17. Strange Fruit
18. Blues in the Air
19. Mooche, The
20. Twelfth Street Rag
21. Mood Indigo
22. What Is This Thing Called Love
23. Rose Room
24. Oh! Lady Be Good
25. Blues of Bechet
26. Petite Fleur
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 131534
Credits

Producer
Engineer
Personnel: Sidney Bechet (clarinet, soprano saxophone).
Liner Note Author: Arthur Morton.
Recording information: Chicago (01/08/1941); New York (01/08/1941); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (01/08/1941); Chicago (01/31/1952); New York (01/31/1952); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (01/31/1952); Chicago (02/05/1940); New York (02/05/1940); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (02/05/1940); Chicago (04/18/1941); New York (04/18/1941); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (04/18/1941); Chicago (04/28/1941); New York (04/28/1941); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (04/28/1941); Chicago (06/04/1940); New York (06/04/1940); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (06/04/1940); Chicago (09/06/1940); New York (09/06/1940); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (09/06/1940); Chicago (09/13/1941); New York (09/13/1941); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (09/13/1941); Chicago (09/14/1939); New York (09/14/1939); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (09/14/1939); Chicago (09/15/1932); New York (09/15/1932); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (09/15/1932); Chicago (10/14/1941); New York (10/14/1941); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (10/14/1941); Chicago (10/24/1941); New York (10/24/1941); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (10/24/1941); Chicago (11/11/1940); New York (11/11/1940); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (11/11/1940); Chicago (11/28/1938); New York (11/28/1938); Salle Pleyel, Paris, France (11/28/1938).
Legendary Sidney Bechet: Petite Fleur compiles tracks recorded by the storied New Orleans soprano sax and clarinet player. Recorded in New York, Chicago, and France, these are earthy, swinging, and bluesy tracks that feature the influential Bechet just coming out of his most obscure period of the '30s to greater acclaim in the late '40s and '50s. Featured alongside Bechet are such luminaries as trumpeters Tommy Ladnier, Rex Stewart, and Harry "Red" Allen, as well as pianists Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, Willie "The Lion" Smith, bassist Wellman Braud, drummer Sidney Catlett, and others. Also included are the two "one-man band" recordings Bechet made in which he overdubbed himself playing all of the instruments. ~ Matt Collar