The Complete, Vols. 1-2 [RCA]

by Sidney Bechet

Overview

Of all the overlapping Bechet reissue series, this series of two-LP sets released by French RCA is easily the best, with all of the Victor sides by the great soprano-saxophonist and clarinetist (including the valuable alternate takes) being issued complete and in chronological order. The first two-fer is highlighted by the blazing session by The New Orleans Feetwarmers from 1932, four selections from the "Really the Blues" date with trumpeter Tommy Ladnier and clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow, and such Bechet classics as "Indian Summer," "Old Man Blues" and "Nobody Knows The Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin'." ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	02/14/2013
Label:	Rca
UPC:	0078636649825
Rank:	193280

Tracks

1. Sweetie Dear
2. Shake It and Break It
3. Old Man Blues
4. I Want You Tonight
5. I've Found a New Baby
6. Wild Man Blues
7. Lay Your Racket
8. Maple Leaf Rag
9. Shag
10. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
11. Ja-Da
12. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
13. Really the Blues
14. St. Louis Blues
15. When You and I Were Young, Maggie
16. Weary Blues
17. Blues in Thirds
18. Indian Summer
19. Blue for You, Johnny
20. One O'Clock Jump
21. Ain't Misbehavin'

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sidney Bechet   Primary Artist,Vocals,Clarinet,Sax (Soprano)
Rudolph Adler   Sax (Tenor)
Nat Levine   Director
Mario Janarro   Piano
Alfred Evans   Clarinet
Teddy Nixon   Trombone
Jim Tolliver   Piano
Teddy Bunn   Guitar
Sidney DeParis   Vocals,Trumpet
Big Sid Catlett   Director
Bernard Addison   Guitar,Vocals
Kenny Clarke   Director
Cliff Jackson   Piano
Wellman Braud   Bass
Wilson Myers   Bass,Vocals
Sandy Williams   Vocals,Trombone
Mezz Mezzrow   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Earl Hines   Piano
Manzie Johnson   Director
Tommy Ladnier   Trumpet
Henry "Red" Allen   Trumpet
Henry Levine   Trumpet
Harry Patent   Bass
Sonny White   Piano
Baby Dodds   Director
J.C. Heard   Director
Rex Stewart   Cornet
Elmer James   Bass
Herb Jeffries   Vocals
Tony Colucci   Guitar
Morris Morand   Director
Charlie Howard   Guitar
William Maxey   Vocals

Technical Credits

H. Quail Clarke   Composer
Walter Barnes   Composer
Spencer Williams   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Pearl Delaney   Composer
Sidney Bechet   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Bob Carlton   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Joe Jordan   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Jack Palmer   Composer
Count Basie   Composer
Fats Waller   Composer
Victor Herbert   Composer
W.C. Handy   Composer
Louis Armstrong   Composer
Jelly Roll Morton   Composer
Mezz Mezzrow   Composer
Earl Hines   Composer
Harry Brooks   Composer
Tom Delaney   Composer
Al Dubin   Composer
James Austin Butterfield   Composer
Scott Joplin   Composer
Artie Matthews   Composer
Milton Nelson   Composer
Lou Chicha Friscoe   Composer
Will Marion Cook   Composer
Bill Maxey   Composer
George Washington Johnson   Composer