(MUSIC) BECHET SIDNEY Sidney Bechet Disques Vogues

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(MUSIC.) BECHET, SIDNEY. Sidney Bechet Disques Vogues. Poster, 40-3/4 x 31 inches, linen-backed with a photographic image of Bechet by A Visak. Paris: Vogues, circa 1930's-1940

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Sidney Bechet (1897-1959), clarinetist, soprano saxophone player, and composer was the youngest of five sons and two daughters of Omar Bechet, shoemaker and Josephine Michel of New Orleans, Louisiana. Bechet was raised as a middle class "Creole" at a time when state law re-classified Creoles of color as Negroes. The entire Bechet family was musical and Sidney began playing when he was about seven or eight. By his early twenties, he was touring with the bands of Noble Sissle and James Reese Europe. Bechet first came to Paris with Josephine Baker in 1925. Both of them remained there, and formed the nucleus of what was to become a substantial black ex-patriot community. Bechet is generally considered to be one of the greatest clarinetists and soprano saxophone players of all time.