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Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz
Sidney Bechet The Wizard of Jazz
Author: John Chilton
Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897–1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone. In a career that spanned five decades and two continents ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780306806780
ISBN-10: 0306806789
Publication Date: 4/1/1996
Pages: 329
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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