From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who later…
From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who later…
From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who later…
From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who…
As producer Michael Cuscuna explains in a helpful addendum, The Fabulous Sidney Bechet is a reissue of a reissue. The 1958 release combined two earlier 10″ LPs recorded in New York in 1951 and 1953 during short visits by Bechet, who at that time was already living as an…
From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who later…
Sidney Bechet (ss) Meade “Lux” Lewis (p) Teddy Bunn (g) Johnny Williams (b) Sidney Catlett (d) probably WMGM Studio, NYC, June 8, 1939 George “Pops” Foster (b) replaces Lewis, Williams Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, March 27, 1940 Sidney DeParis (tp) Vic Dickenson (tb) Sidney Bechet (ss, cl) Art Hodes…
Bunk Johnson (tp) Sandy Williams (tb) Sidney Bechet (cl) Cliff Jackson (p) George “Pops” Foster (b) Manzie Johnson (d) WOR Studios, NYC, March 10, 1945 Albert Nicholas (cl) Sidney Bechet (ss, cl) Art Hodes (p) George “Pops” Foster (b) Danny Alvin (d) WOR Studios, NYC, February 12, 1946
Wild Bill Davison (cor) Sidney Bechet (ss) Art Hodes (p) Walter Page (b) Fred Moore (d) WOR Studios, NYC, January 21, 1949 Ray Diehl (tb) Slick Jones (d) replaces Moore WOR Studios, NYC, March 23, 1949 Pierre Dervaux (tp) Bernard Zacharias (tb) Claude Luter (cl) Sidney Bechet (ss) Christian…
Wild Bill Davison (cor) Sidney Bechet (ss) Art Hodes (p) Walter Page (b) Fred Moore (d) WOR Studios, NYC, January 21, 1949 Ray Diehl (tb) Slick Jones (d) replaces Moore WOR Studios, NYC, March 23, 1949 Pierre Dervaux (tp) Claude Phillippe (tp, bj) Mowgli Jospin (tb) Claude Luter (cl)…