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 ...

The largely self-taught New Orleans reedman Sidney Bechett developed one of the most distinctive solo voices in jazz. Unlike Louis Armstrong, Bechet never achieved stardom in the United States. This ...

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 ...

Sidney Bechet, one of the early jazz greats, made his name on the clarinet, not the cornet or trumpet. Artist: Arthur Leipzig, 1945, Gelatin silver print, National ...

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 ...

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 ...

The address was 3503 S. State St., but Mezz Mezzrow thought he was in heaven when he met Sidney Bechet at the Deluxe Café. White and in love with the music born in Black communities in Louisiana, ...

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, ...

"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 ...