Sidney Bechet
Sidney Joseph Bechet ( ; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American
jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important
soloists in
jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter
Louis Armstrong. His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France.
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