A bit more from the baleful Bechet. Here he plays Gershwin’s great lullaby/aria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwwTIuuLvcU&feature=related
And here he takes on one of Cole Porter’s finest.
Next, a song by N. Swanstone, Charles R. McCarron and Carey Morgan published in1919: so a jazz warhorse. And none the worse for that.
Shall we end with another warhorse, this time a return to his quartet with Muggsy Spanier in 1940?
Ah hell no. Let’s have a blues as an encore.
Long long time no hear – blues my naughty sweetie – wonderful. And summertime at the start!
Sidney Bechet And His Hot Six
Sidney DeParis (tp) Jimmy Archey (tb) Sidney Bechet (ss) Don Kirkpatrick (p) Pops Foster (b) Manzie Johnson (d)
WOR Studios, NYC, November 5, 1951
Original Dixieland One-Step
Avalon –
That’s A Plenty –
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me –
Ballin’ The Jack –
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
While you two were chatting I just bought a Bechet CD from Amazon. Had to have Summertime on it – my main criterion.
Different version, not in the same league:
http://youtu.be/B8uFf7pKomc
Had a version of Love for Sale by Palm Court Theatre Orchestra [Chandos] – can’t remember the singer. Linda Murray.