[Dixielandjazz] Si Tu Vois Ma Mere

[Don Ingle]

On 10/15/2011 10:15 PM, Ken Gates wrote:
> I haven't seen Midnight in Paris, but the soundtrack of Sidney Bechet 
> playing it
> via youtube sure seems to be in the key of B natural.  Did he play it 
> in that key?
>
> But while on youtube, I found the version with Bob Wilber playing a 
> wonderful
> sounding curved soprano sax (at least I think that's what it 
> was)----but with all
> due respect to the genius of Bechet, I prefer the Wilber version--it was
> played in the key of Bb.
>
> Ken Gates
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Kenb et  al: Wilbur studied with Bechet, so little wonder he has the 
touch and feel, even if playing a curved b-flat soprano rather tha a 
straight fishmhorn.
I have my dad's old one (Conn) and his playing of it can be heard on 
Spike Jones' Pass the Bisquits Mirandy, ala slapstick Jones' manner.
Don Ingle