Bechet-Luter – March 12 1952
Down Beat 10 March 1954 Volume 21 Issue 5
Vol. 2 of Sidney Bechet at a 1952 Jazz Festival Concert in Paris. Recording sounds as if it had been made by transatlantic telephone, and Sidney’s accompanists are dourly depressing in their lack of taste or imagination: The intonation often sounds as if Mezz Mezzrow had been teaching these cats solfeggio in his spare time.
Sidney plows manfully through the Gallic fog and if you dig his drive and authority, the set has some compensations. And Sidney’s own reminiscent Petite Fleur is a rather pretty though schmaltzy tune. None of the other personnel is listed and for the sake of Franco-American relations and the EDC, it’s a wise omission. This is something like backing Chevalier with the Korn Kobblers. (Blue Note LP 7025)
See also: January 31 1952
Session Information
Guy Longnon, Claude Rabanit, trumpet; Bernard Zacharias, trombone; Claude Luter, clarinet; Sidney Bechet, soprano saxophone; Christian Azzi, piano; Claude Philippe, banjo; Roland Bianchini, bass; Francois “Moustache” Galepides, drums
Concert "Salle Pleyel", Paris, March 12 1952
(Presentation by Charles Delaunay)
American rhythm
Muskrat ramble
Panama rag (incomplete)
V4386, I've found a new baby (part 1), Blue Note BLP7025
V4387, I've found a new baby (part 2), , Blue Note BLP7025
V4388, Pleyel rhythm [I got rhythm] (part 1)
V4389, Pleyel rhythm [I got rhythm] (part 2)
St. Louis blues
Casey Jones, Blue Note BLP7025
Petite fleur
V4385, Dippermouth blues
Frankie and Johnny
Royal garden blues
Royal garden blues (encore)
As-tu le cafard ?
V4401, Struttin' with some barbecue (part 1)
V4402, Struttin' with some barbecue (part 2)
September Song, Blue Note BLP 7024
Les oignons
Society blues
V4215, Summertime
Marchand de poissons
Sweet Georgia Brown
Dans les rues d'Antibes
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