"The definitive work on Bechet.
In a career that spanned five decades and two continents he worked with Bu.
This is one of those rare books that once started you have difficulty putting down."-- Jazz Journal Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone. "The definitive work on Bechet