[Dixielandjazz] IT'S ONLY ONE MAN'S OPINION

[Marek Boym]

It has been called "musical onanism."  Still, it is Bechet, and even
if not at his best, still etter tahn many others.

Cheers

On 11 June 2010 14:20, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> After discovering that I indeed had a copy of Sidney Bechet's "Sheik of
> Araby" from 1941, I gave a listen to it yesterday afternoon.
>
> Aside from the technical aspect of overdubbing, establishing that it could
> be done, I thought the end result musically was really hardly worth the
> trouble.
>
> Bechet's clarinet, soprano & tenor sax playing could be heard but such was
> not the case with him playing piano, bass & drums or if so, it was so faint
> in the background that I could not detect it.
>