Portrait - Sidney Bechet

Portrait

Compilation by Sidney Bechet

Released 2001

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CD 1: Maple Leaf Rag
1
Got the Bench, Got the Park
3:13
2
In a Cafe on the Road to Calais
2:50
3
Loveless Love
3:18
4
Basement Blues
3:20
5
Wha'd Ya Do to Me?
3:04
6
Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On
3:07
7
Sweetie Dear
2:49
8
I Want You Tonight
3:07
9
I've Found a New Baby
3:12
10
Lay Your Racket
3:15
11
Maple Leaf Rag
2:55
12
Shag
3:07
13
Under the Creole Moon
3:19
14
The Old Ark Is Moverin'
3:02
15
Loveless Love
2:58
16
Polka Dot Rag
2:52
17
That's What Love Did to Me
3:05
18
You Can't Live in Harlem
2:26
19
I Wonder Who Made Rhythm
3:13
20
Tain't a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast
2:33
CD 2: Okey - Doke
1
I Take to You
2:45
2
Rhythm of the Broadway Moon
2:53
3
Bandana Days
2:54
4
I'm Just Wild About Harry
2:53
5
Dear Old Southland
2:34
6
Okey-Doke
2:58
7
Characteristic Blues
2:59
8
Viper Mad
3:02
9
Blackstick
2:47
10
When the Sun Sets Down South (Southern Sunset)
3:10
11
Sweet Patootie
3:18
12
Freight Train Blues
3:22
13
Trixie's Blues
3:17
14
My Daddy Rocks Me, Pt. 1
2:59
15
My Daddy Rocks Me, Pt. 2
2:54
16
He May Be Your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometimes)
2:48
17
Jack, I'm Mellow
2:47
18
Uncle Joe
2:36
19
I Am a Woman
2:52
20
Toot It, Brother Armstrong
3:10
21
Blue Monday on Sugar Hill
2:17
CD 3: Jungle Drums
1
My Unusual Man
2:45
2
What a Dream
2:53
3
Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama)
2:39
4
Jungle Drums
2:30
5
Chant in the Night
2:26
6
Ja-Da
2:53
7
Really the Blues
3:37
8
When You and I Were Young, Maggie
2:41
9
Weary Blues
3:01
10
Blues for Tommy
4:21
11
Summertime
4:07
12
Pounding Heart Blues
3:57
13
Magic Island
2:38
14
Mayotte
2:31
15
Rose Rhumba
2:21
16
Sous Les Palmiers
2:35
17
Original Haitian Music, Pt. I
2:22
18
Original Haitian Music, Pt. 2
2:25
19
Tropical Moon
3:01
20
Baba
2:36
21
Original Haitian Music, Pt. 3
2:43
CD 4: Sidney's Blues
1
Original Haitian Music, Pt. 4
2:45
2
Ti Ralph
2:57
3
Meringue d'Amour
2:19
4
Marche du Colonel Bogey
2:39
5
Indian Summer
3:07
6
One O'Clock Jump
2:28
7
Preachin' Blues
3:03
8
Sidney's Blues
2:50
9
Careless Love
3:42
10
Milk Cow Blues
4:06
11
Lonesome Blues
4:05
12
Dear Old Southland
4:03
13
Bechet's Steady Rider
2:55
14
Saturday Night Blues
2:56
15
Four or Five Times
4:06
16
Sweet Lorraine
4:21
17
Lazy River
4:14
18
China Boy
3:54
19
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
4:04
20
That's A-Plenty
4:13
21
Squeeze Me
3:53
CD 5: Swing Parade
1
Sweet Sue, Just You
4:10
2
Shake It and Break It
2:54
3
Old Man Blues
2:48
4
Wild Man Blues
3:19
5
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
3:30
6
Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
3:15
7
Blues in Thirds
2:55
8
Blue for You, Johnny
2:47
9
Ain't Misbehavin'
2:50
10
Save It, Pretty Mama
2:51
11
Stompy Jones
2:47
12
Muskrat Ramble
2:46
13
Coal Black Shine
2:43
14
Egyptian Fantasy
3:00
15
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
2:34
16
Slippin' and Slidin'
2:51
17
The Sheik of Araby
2:10
18
Blues of Bechet
1:53
19
Swing Parade
2:20
20
I Know That You Know
2:30
21
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
2:59
CD 6: Blues in the Air
1
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll
3:13
2
I'm Coming Virginia
2:38
3
Limehouse Blues
2:35
4
Georgia Cabin
2:58
5
Texas Moaner Blues
2:57
6
Strange Fruit
2:30
7
You're the Limit
3:10
8
Rip up the Joint
2:20
9
Suey
2:31
10
Blues in the Air
2:45
11
The Mooche
3:09
12
Laughin' in Rhythm
2:01
13
Twelfth Street Rag
2:59
14
Mood Indigo
3:11
15
Rose Room
2:36
16
Oh, Lady Be Good
2:27
17
What Is This Thing Called Love?
3:30
18
After You've Gone
4:50
19
V-Disc Blues (Bugle Call Rag/Ole Miss)
4:50
20
St. Louis Blues
4:14
21
St. Louis Blues
4:45
CD 7: Jazz Me Blues
1
Jazz Me Blues
4:17
2
Blue Horizon
4:27
3
Muskrat Ramble
3:41
4
You've Got Me Walkin' and Talkin' to Myself
3:53
5
Quiet Please
3:55
6
Cliff's Boogie Blues
4:14
7
Jeepers Creepers
4:24
8
High Society
3:37
9
Salty Dog
4:04
10
Weary Blues
4:21
11
Jackass Blues
4:46
12
Milenberg Joys
4:20
13
Lord Let Me in the Lifeboat
3:35
14
Days Beyond Recall
4:51
15
Porto Rico
3:11
16
Up in Sidney's Flat
4:22
17
Quincy Street Stomp (Blame It on the Blues)
2:56
18
Old Stack O'Lee Blues
4:12
CD 8: Buddy Bolden Stomp
1
Royal Garden Blues
6:33
2
Slow Blues
6:42
3
Old Fashioned Love
5:27
4
Fast Blues
6:02
5
Bugle Blues
4:48
6
Spreading Joy
2:54
7
I Had It But It's All Gone Now
3:18
8
Polka Dot Stomp
2:39
9
Kansas City Man Blues
2:39
10
Buddy Bolden Stomp
2:47
11
Song of Songs
3:11
12
My Woman's Blues
2:55
13
Song of Songs
2:59
14
Just One of Those Things
3:04
15
Love for Sale
2:42
16
Laura
3:07
17
Shake 'Em Up
2:35
18
Sister Kate
3:05
19
Tiger Rag
3:06
CD 9: Tin Roof Blues
1
Tin Roof Blues
3:00
2
I've Found a New Baby
3:08
3
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
3:09
4
When the Saints Go Marching In
3:01
5
I Got Rhythm
3:06
6
September Song
2:58
7
Who?
2:54
8
Song of the Medina
2:37
9
Maryland, My Maryland
2:31
10
Careless Love
2:47
11
Egyptian Fantasy
2:43
12
Basin Street Blues
3:18
13
Cake Walking Babies from Home
2:35
14
Tailgate Ramble
2:53
15
At the Jazz Band Ball
3:02
16
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
3:20
17
Fidgety Feet
3:00
18
Honeysuckle Rose
2:58
19
Coquette
3:20
20
High Society
3:18
21
On the Sunny Side of the Street
2:43
22
Sugar
2:45
CD 10: Petite Fleur
1
Muskrat Ramble
5:20
2
St. Louis Blues
5:41
3
Sweet Georgia Brown
8:35
4
Summertime
3:18
5
I Found a New Baby
7:44
6
September Song
2:31
7
High Society
4:17
8
Dippermouth Blues
3:39
9
I Got Rhythm
6:51
10
Frankie and Johnny
5:19
11
Casey Jones
3:24
12
Society Blues
8:56
13
Petite Fleur
3:17

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Release credits

Art Hodes
piano [11]
Charlie Shavers
trumpet [15]
Clarence Brereton
trumpet [8]
Everett Barksdale
guitar [15]
Freddie Moore
drums (drum set) [11], vocal [11]
George "Pops" Foster
double bass [4.14, 7.11]
George Lugg
trombone [11]
Gil White
tenor saxophone [8]
Harry Brooks
piano [8]
Jimmy Jones
double bass [8]
Jimmy Miller
guitar [8]
Max Kaminsky
trumpet [11]
O’Neill Spencer
drums (drum set) [8], vocal [8]
Sid Catlett
drums (drum set) [4.14, 6.15]
Sidney Bechet
clarinet [2.8, 4.14, 7.11], reeds [14], soprano saxophone [4.14, 2.8, 6.15, 7.11]
Teddy Bunn
guitar [14]
Wellman Braud
double bass [15]
Willie “The Lion” Smith
piano [15]

Issues

P
Portrait
10x CD
2001