[Dixielandjazz] Bechet and Noone and Dodds

[Marek Boym]

I love Bechet's playing, whether on clarinet or on the soprano sax!  On the
former, he had competitors.  On the latter - he didn't then and hasn't
since.  I cannot think of many Bechet recordings I haven't liked, other
than the merengues he recorded with other worthy jazzmen (the only one I
recall right now is Willie the Lion), and his ballet "La Nuit Est une
Sorciere" (from memory, and my French is non-existent).
Cheers

On 12 April 2015 at 09:47, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> ROBERT R. CALDER wrote [in part] on a slow DJML weekend:
> > I remember Steve Voce has reported the element of the Bechet-Eddie
> Lambert conversation, "why do you play soprano these days to the exclusion
> of clarinet?"...
>
> Dear Robert,
> I don't recall that interview (Jazz Journal?) but get the idea regarding
> the response.
>
> > I've given up on thinking it would have been a good thing if Bechet had
> played lots of clarinet in his later years.
>
> Me too. It was because Bechet gave up clarinet in about 1951 that I
> stopped buying his records.
> With some exceptions.
>
> > Another masterpiece on lines like Bechet's in the 1930s is Johnny
> Dodds's performance on "I'm Goin' Huntin'" with Louis Armstrong, Jimmy
> Blythe and I think Jimmy Bertrand...Twenty years later I finally managed to
> hear the other title of the two from that date. I found it incredibly
> dull.  Masterpieces are rare things.
>
> They are indeed.
> But I can't let that last piece of misinformation slide.
> That Jimmy Bertrand Washboard Wizards' Vocalion session recorded on 21
> April 1927 with Louis, Dodds, Blythe and Bertrand produced four tunes:
>     Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
>     The Blues Stampede
>     I'm Goin' Huntin'
>     If You Want To Be My Sugar Papa
> All masterpieces!
> (But Haesler would say that wouldn't he?)
> Have another listen with fresh ears and a glass of singe malt.
> They are all on YouTube.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
>
>
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