Sidney Bechet - Blue Horizon
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2012
- Sidney Bechet "Blue Horizon" 1944,
"Bechet plays-one is tempted to say sings, with slow-motion dignity,
bending notes in and out of pitch, moving pensively through
the chalumeau register of the clarinet, and building up to long high
notes of hair-raising intensity." (Sidney Bechet and His Long Song
By Lewis Porter and Michael Ullman)
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Welcome to Advanced Blues 310. This is the textbook for the whole semester.
A classic legend with such an enduring song that illustrates the pure essence of Bechet's talent and mastery of jazz
thanks Mr Yorke
Cannot believe this is played on clarinet! Genius!
Omg Sidney Bachet! My kids looked at me funny when I introduced this to them but I think they are starting to understand his true genius. Amazing pioneer and musician
Ok je m
That vibrato makes me shiver as it did when first heard it (aged 10!!)
My school’s music program didn’t allow clarinet or flute players to join jazz band because they didn’t consider them jazz instruments. I still get salty about it when I listen to this and realize how much I missed out on.
Thom Yorke has impeccable taste
This video is about the beauty of the tune and the incredible talent of Sidney Bechet, who's sound was amazing weather playing clarinet or soprano. The images I've chosen were the ones that captured the spirit of the tune and portray the enigmatic performer that Bechet clearly was. The film footage was the best I could find from a Very limited stock. I'm disappointed that you feel my video “lies” and hope other viewers feel differently.
Well, I think the video is marvelous! So thank you for posting the tune and creating such a sensitive montage. 👍
Thanks for the share. I have always loved this song by Sidney
Don't feel disappointed, some people are dumb and only thing they can do is to criticise others work... Thank's for creating this wonderful content for us!
Он Гений, я счастлив что нашел его музыку!
Among other things, thank you Mr. Yorke
One of the very greatest jazz recordings. This is how to play the blues! It strikes me that everyone says how great Bechet was, yet he gets somewhat ignored. Maybe because he was one-off and didn't have much of a school of followers the way Louis or Bird did?
Pete Kernow he immigrated to France in 1950 because his style of music was no longer popular in usa jazz circa 1950, as bop was becoming mainstream. by the late 1950s, the three great tenor saxophonists, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Ben Webster experienced similar situations. Mr. Young died in 1959. Mr. Hawkins died in 1969 after a slow descent into obscurity, and Mr. Webster immigrated to europe in 1964, where his music was still appreciated, and died there in 1973. many of the great jazz musicians from the swing era, and some a bit later from the bop era, moved to europe because they couldn't get recording contracts or gigs in the usa after hard bop, free jazz, latin jazz and soul jazz became dominant jazz idioms in the 1960s. and those insects from liverpool arrived in the usa in 1964 which indirectly put the final nail in the coffin of swing era jazz, at least as a popular and marketable style of music. it was kind of like what happened to classical composers who were still composing diatonic music in the 1960s after serialism, twelve-tone compositional technique, atonality and musique concrète became fashionable elements of classical music and championed by musical academia and other blights of society. that's why it is often advisable for artists to die young: they will become immortalised and never go out of fashion.
Pete Kernow Sidney Bechet refused to mug and clown for audiences. He was known to be quick-tempered and openly resentful of racism in or out of the music business. Johnny Hodges took lessons from Bechet, and you can hear the influence in pretty much everything Hodges played. But American show business did not welcome Bechet's independent outlook, and it's also true that his resolutely personal sound came to be considered old-fashioned. Mozart's old-fashioned, too. But he gets a better reception.
We had a very good follower of Bechet in Denmark. Unfortunately he has already died. His name is Steen Vig.
Definitely an underrated musician, but his jazz and blues will always endure
Sidney Bechet on clarinet !
Sidney managed to blow a "masterpiece despite having to deal with a very challenging reed (which becomes more evident as the piece progresses. This blues number has a definite opening ,middle ,and end ( the end being a triumphant upper register solo fading to the minor
Gorgeous. One of the first jazz pieces I was introduced to.
I guess I've only heard on black and white movies...ive never heard of him or his recordings
This recording was on the first version of a 6 LP set, The Smithsonian Collection of Jazz. Back in the 70s I took a wonderful community college class, The History of Afro-American Music, that focussed on jazz. It was taught by this great jazz pianist, Wilbert Baranco. He knew Fats Waller and Art Tatum and told us funny anecdotes about them. The homework was simple but time-consuming, good ear training. For the midterm & final, Mr. Baranco played random tracks from that six record set and we had to identify the name of the piece, the band leader, and the band leader’s birthdate and birthplace (!). I spent hours every week listening to those 12 sides in the listening lab. Such a great teacher and intro to jazz. This tune by Bechet was really one of my favorites on that set. Later I found out that usually Bechet played soprano sax-on here it’s clarinet.
So smooth!
it's an excellent video and of course the music is outstanding. if people need a picture to tell them what instrument Maestro Bichet is playing, then perhaps they should do some preparation before listening to this great jazz tune. it was the theme song of a jazz program on Philadelphia radio that Mr. Harrison Ridlley, Jr., may he rest in eternal peace, did on Sunday nights for many years. He was a great man. I learned more from him than from 17 professors in a doctoral program. muchas gracias y saludos desde Tokio.
Salgoud Samoht Thanks for your post. I’m from Philly. The program was called Shades of Blue. It aired on WRTI 90.1 FM Temple University Radio on Sunday evenings. Then the local classical music station went under. Temple Radio which previously had a jazz format got the musical archives of the classical station and changed its format to 12 hours per day of classical and 12 hours of jazz. Shades of Blue was pushed out despite the written protest of me and many other Temple alumni. 👨🏽🎓
I didn’t know Harrison Ridley Jr. passes. RIP
Philip Larkin's favourite record - the Alan Elsdon band played a version at his memorial service in Westminster Abbey.
Voila ce que Duke Ellington voulait dire en parlant de la sonorité bois de la clarinette de Sidney .
This guy is the father of improv.
Lovely
Forse il più grande assolo di clarinetto nella storia del jazz
That's the sound of a real Albert, this divine instrument. Have been trying for so long to get an affordable Albert clarinet here in Switzerland - no chance. You cannot really play such songs on a Boehm, even less on a normal German system with a tight bore.
BEAUTIFUL.
arrrgh so good
Awesome!
...incantevole.
Deliciousness!! Wow!
I'm in love with this recording...PLEASE tell me where to find more slow bluesy gems like this!!!!
William O'Keeffe me too! It's been close to my heart for many years. Have you heard him play "Si tu vois ma mère", Love that too
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz or Ken Burns Jazz documentary soundtrack. That way you get all the classics. The former of the two is where I heard this song of Bichet's as a kid and have loved it ever since.
Love this tune, the vibrato is incredible
Omg, yeah
Great!!!
its a shame kids arent taught about cats like this in public school
TEŞEKKÜRLER METİN AKDÜLGER BÜYÜLENDİM
Can someone please tell me the chord progressions to his solo?
It's just a blues 12 bars in Eflat. The question is not the structure, but the way he molds the melody.