Star saxophonist Courtney Pine's new album Transition in Tradition is dedicated to Sidney Bechet – a New Orleans jazz pioneer who died half a century ago. His name is probably unknown to music lovers ...

If you're new to jazz, go to our Getting Into Jazz primer for some hints on how to listen. Two hot jazz legends melt the thermometer, pushing each other to produce the most inspired work of their ...

To all you wonderful Super Bowl visitors, a word to the wise: If you leave this city with memories only of football and booze, without a fuller appreciation of the unique culture of New Orleans, you ...

Ce soir, la sixième soirée de Jazz à l'Amirauté est placée sous le signe de Sydney Bechet. En effet, les organisateurs ont convié Daniel-Sidney Bechet et son quintet pour ce nouveau rendez-vous ...

When Sidney Bechet played, the walls trembled, the pulse accelerated and the heart skipped a beat. His music was passion and energy transformed... Sidney Bechet, 'Soprano Sax King' Sidney Bechet was ...

Three decades before Norman Mailer in 1957 drew attention to the social phenomenon of the "white negro," Mezz Mezzrow claimed to be just that. To use his own terminology, he was "a voluntary negro." ...

"There are not many perfect things in jazz, but Sidney Bechet playing the blues could be one of them." So said poet Philip Larkin of the legendary New Orleans musician who died in 1959. Bechet is ...

Daniel Bechet unveils a blue plaque in London in honour of his father, jazz musician Sidney Bechet Credit: Photo: Martin Chilton Sidney Bechet's son, the drummer and writer Daniel Bechet, spoke of his ...

10 September 1956: Performing in Manchester, his saxophone was already at his lips as he walked on to the platform, its unique tone soon heard above the band The purifying jazz of Sidney Bechet, ...

Le samedi 3 mars, à 20 h 30, à la salle des fêtes de Plémet, l'association « Swing 22 », de Saint-Gilles du Mené, présidée par Martine Chevaucherie, organise une soirée jazz en hommage à Sidney Bechet ...