Sidney BECHET
Cosmopolitan musician from his youth, Sidney Bechet is the origin of the first jazz critic rather serious. In 1919 he was solo clarinetist of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra conducted by composer Will Marion Cook, who refused to use the word "jazz" but was keen to be featured Bechet. The Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet, who had several opportunities to listen to this training in London, wrote of Bechet: (It) can say nothing of his art, except that it follows its own path. and this is perhaps the road on which the whole world tomorrow swinguera. Musical prodigy, born into a Creole family, he studied with Louis says "Papa" Tio Tio Lorenzo and son to New Orleans [1]. He joined in 1917, the exodus to Chicago and worked with two famous exiles, trumpeter Freddie Keppard and pianist Tony Jackson. Then he accompanied Cook in London where he discovered the soprano saxophone, an instrument more dominant than the clarinet and with whom he can easily produce the throbbing vibrato that is his trademark. Expelled from Britain due to fight in a hotel, Bechet moved to New York where the pianist Clarence Williams is desperate to have it registered, especially with Louis Armstrong. This led to place a first meeting between these giants of jazz. However, new problems brought him back to Europe where he spent four years in which the Negro Revue Josephine Baker is the star. During that Armstrong made his classical recordings, his main rival as jazz soloist is touring Europe and Russia. After a triumphant return to Paris Jazz Festival in 1949, he decided to settle in France. Bechet became a superstar Allen (with wife and mistress in the countryside in Paris), ruling on its leaders and attracting the crowds. Its theme Petite Fleur is a worldwide success, even if he himself was probably most proud of ballet scores such as The Night is a witch that he composed for the dancer and choreographer Pierre Lacotte, although slightly more melodious cutesy to as film music of Charlie Chaplin. Since his death in 1959, a statue of his bust stands in a park in Antibes. Authoritarian is a word that has often been used to define the music of Bechet. His many troubles speak volumes about his irascible character shines through in solos often excited and passionate, direct and stripped and can not be confused with those of any other musician. His first recordings put it on a par with Armstrong when its sounds and brilliant lead the orchestra, his position seems more in harmony with a trumpet solo with counterpoint which is usually held in saxophones and clarinets. But it would be wrong to see in the practice of Bechet than a display of musical autocracy, especially when you consider the period before moving to France and especially his work on clarinet. Like Muggsy Spanier, trumpeter sensitive yet powerful, this is a model of sobriety, leaving even the veteran Bunk Johnson, quite fragile in 1945, be the first trumpet in orchestral close to the ideal of a casual counterpoint dear to New Orleans. Among his most famous recordings must be included the remarkable trio Blues in Thirds, with Earl Hines and Baby Dodds, Blue Horizon, Out Of The Gallion with Mezzrow, Little Flower and any of its versions of Summertime or Weary Blues , a theme that could have been written for him. Google machine translation: Sidney BECHET's original bio |
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