Sidney Bechet - A Jazz Hour with Sidney Bechet: Weary Blues (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 143.70 Mb | 01:01:40 | Covers
Dixieland, Early Jazz, New Orleans Jazz | Label: Jazz Hour - JHR 73553
Released in 1996, Jazz Hour's Weary Blues is a sampler of classic Sidney Bechet performances containing 20 recordings made for the Decca, Vocalion, Bluebird, and Blue Note labels between February 10, 1938 and June 4, 1940. Bechet is heard wielding clarinet and soprano sax with Noble Sissle's Swingsters, Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen, with bands led by trumpeters Tommy Ladnier and Louis Armstrong, and as leader of his own powerfully driven ensembles including the famous New Orleans Feetwarmers.