Sidney Bechet - Blues in the Air [Fabulous/Acrobat]

Title: Blues in the Air [Fabulous/Acrobat] Artist: Sidney Bechet Release Date: 11/7/2003 Label: Fabulous Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 824046014322, 669910309452 Genre: Jazz Styles: Dixieland, Early Jazz, New Orleans Jazz Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Joyous, Passionate, Playful, Bittersweet, Boisterous, Earthy, Rollicking, Sophisticated, Energetic, Fun, Knotty, Organic, Reflective, Uplifting, Warm, Wistful, Exuberant, Freewheeling, Gritty, Confident, Street-Smart Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Summertime
2. Maple Leaf Rag
3. One O'Clock Jump
4. Dear Old Southland
5. Saturday Night Blues
6. Bechet's Steady Rider
7. China Boy
8. Blues in Thirds
9. Save It, Pretty Mama
10. Egyptian Fantasy
11. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
12. Coal Black Shine
13. The Sheikh of Araby
14. Blues of Bechet
15. Limehouse Blues
16. Mood Indigo
17. Blues in the Air
18. Rose Room
19. Twelfth Street Rag
20. Jazz Me Blues
21. Blue Horizon
22. Muskrat Ramble

Year Type Label Catalog # 2003 CD Fabulous 143

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It's too bad in a sense that Louis Armstrong gets all the attention for early-period jazz when fellow New Orleanian Sidney Bechet was just as vital, and in his time assuredly as influential. These 22 tracks display the immortal clarinetist/soprano saxophonist in his prime around the early '30s. While not an essential collection, there are many of his most well-played numbers here, including "Summertime," "China Boy," "The Sheikh of Araby," "Limehouse Blues," "Rose Room," "Jazz Me Blues," and "Muskrat Ramble." A good starter set for students or a compacted package of a much larger discography for mavens, this is a welcome piece of classic vintage jazz that can be easily recommended. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide

Name Credits Baby Dodds Drums Big Sid Catlett Drums Carmen Mastren Guitar Charlie Howard Guitar Charlie Shavers Trumpet Don Donaldson Piano Earl Hines Piano Ernest Williamson Bass Everett Barksdale Guitar (Electric) Hank Duncan Piano Henry "Red" Allen Trumpet Henry Goodwin Trumpet J.C. Heard Drums J.C. Higginbotham Trombone Jim Tolliver Piano John Lindsay Bass Johnny Williams, Jr. Bass Kenny Clarke Drums Manzie Johnson Drums Meade "Lux" Lewis Piano Morris Morand Drums Muggsy Spanier Cornet Pops Foster Bass Rex Stewart Cornet Sidney Bechet Sax (Soprano), Clarinet Sidney DeParis Trumpet Sonny White Piano Teddy Bunn Guitar Teddy Nixon Trombone Tommy Ladnier Trumpet Vic Dickenson Trombone Wellman Braud Bass Willie "The Lion" Smith Piano Wilson Myers Bass