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Record Reviews CD3: (7) Royal Garden ; On (cl); Claude Aubert (ss); Henri continental musicians too. As Chaix (p); René Marthaler (d). The Sunny Side Of The Street; St Private concert, Geneva, 19 March Wally Fawkes said, Sidney Louis Blues; (8) American Rhythm; 1954. always played with sincerity, no matter in what company. He When The Saints; St Louis Blues; United Music Foundation rises head and shoulder above Casey Jones; Blues In G; Basin ૽૽૽૽૽ Street Blues; Royal Garden Blues; his companions, and is especially Love For Sale; Society Blues; So it’s not just watches and good on numbers like Careless extracts from La Nuit Est Une cuckoo clocks the Swiss are good Love, Southern Sunset, Blues In Sorcière and interviews (71.16) at. This is the most sumptuous The Air and Lady Be Good (why does the audience unanimously CD4: (10) American Rhythm; music album that I have ever seen. It is elegantly and robustly go “ooh!” when the latter is Royal Garden Blues; Down By The bound and then boxed with a announced? Maybe it knew what Old Mill Stream; (11) Saint Louis 216-page 12” x 12” book on Sid- was coming.). Blues; Pennies From Heaven; Les ney Bechet that includes 250 Claude Albert and Wally Fawkes Oignons; (12) ; photographs and 140 docu- were close friends, so when Claude IN SWITZERLAND Summertime; Honeysuckle Rose; ments, most of them published was offered a Swiss residency with CD1: (1) Sweet Georgia Brown; La Complainte Des Infidèles; Royal for the first time. If she were Sidney he rowed Wally into the Summertime; Muskrat Ramble; Tin Garden Blues; Basin Street Blues alive this transcendentally beau- band (when Wally let his contem- Roof Blues; High Society; (53.44) tiful thing is the sort of treasure porary influence from George announcement of Sidney Bechet’s Sidney Bechet(ss) interviewed and that Cleopatra would have Lewis slip into his playing Sidney accompanied by: recent birthday; Weary Blues; wanted to be buried with her. turned round on stage and yelled Blues In The Air; Ain’t Gonna Give (1) Pierre Braslavsky’s Band: Bernard Zacharias (tb); René The set has been produced to “What do you think this is? A Nobody None Of My Jellyroll; Franc (cl); Pierre Braslavsky (ss); commemorate a UNESCO anni- bloody brass band?”). Wally Southern Sunset (excerpt); Eddie Bernard (p); Roger Kara (g); versary and if my conversion acquits himself well and has a Careless Love; Wild Cat Blues; (2) Alf Masselier (b); Michel Pacout good solo on Royal Garden. (d). Geneva, 23 May 1949. from Swiss francs is correct then interview; (3) Oh Didn’t He this would set you back £122.75. (2) Radio Geneva, April 1954. One of the problems with some Ramble (76.10) The set is too elevated to have a of Sidney’s later French concerts (3) Jelly Roll Morton RCA version. CD2: (4) interview; Honeysuckle catalogue number. was that the audience over- (4) Henri Chaix (p); Roger Benz Rose; St Louis Blues; (5) (b); Raymond Thévenoz (d). The sound reclamation from var- whelmed the occasion. The Swiss introduction; Royal Garden Blues; Grand Casino, Geneva, 22 March ious 78 dubbings and tapes used are not so exuberant and as a Summertime; Lady Be Good; 1954. for radio broadcasts is excellent result all this music is good to Southern Sunset; Muskrat Ramble; (5) Pierre Braslavsky’s Band: as (1) considering how comparatively listen to. But then it’s Bechet, so September Song; Blues In The Air; but Christian Viénot (tb) replaces primitive radio recordings and it would be, wouldn’t it? The 22 Zacharias and Roger Paraboschi minutes or so of interviews in St Louis Blues; (6) interview (d) replaces Pacout. Maison Du their preservation were handled (58.25) Peuple, Lausanne, 8 October 1949. at the time, and one presumes French are sensibly put at the (6) Sidney Bechet and Claude that anything that was aurally end of the CDs. JJ CONTENT Luter, Radio Lausanne, 27 April damaged was rejected. By and The United Music Foundation Material is received for consideration 1951. large Bechet sounds at his best is at 20, chemin Rieu, 1208 of review by Journal (that term (7) Henri Chaix (p); Eric Brooke here with the gifted French Geneva, Switzerland. including its website) only under the (g); Roger Benz (b); Raymond pianist Henri Chaix backing him, following conditions: Any party supplying Thévenoz (d). Kongresshaus, Steve Voce any material for review automatically Zurich, 18 January 1955. although Sidney always swung indemnifies JJ Publishing Ltd and its staff (8) Claude Luter’s Band: Pierre even when backed with treacle- against any consequences whatsoever Dervaux (t); Guy Longnon (vtb); fingered players. Eddie Bernard TIM BERNE’S SNAKEOIL arising from publication of review of that Claude Luter (cl); Christian Azzi was always good and is particu- YOU’VE BEEN WATCHING ME material and accepts that the material (p); Roland Bianchini (b); Francois larly eloquent on Lady Be Good. Galépidès(d). Victoria Hall, Lost In Redding; Small World In A is non-returnable. All letters published Luter, Braslavsky and R˙eweliotty in Jazz Journal appear only under the fol- Geneva, 28 April 1951. all had good bands and had all Small Town; Embraceable Me; lowing conditions: Any party submitting (9) Charles Lewis (p). Lausanne, Angles; You’ve Been Watching any letter for publication automatically 21 April 1953. had a chance to become familiar indemnifies JJ Publishing Ltd and its staff with Sidney’s work. Me; Semi Self-Detached; False (10) Andr˙e R˙eweliotty’s Band: Impressions (67.37) against any consequences whatsoever Roland Hug (t); Jean-Louis Durand Humphrey Lyttelton told me that arising from publication of such letter. (tb); Andr˙e R˙eweliotty (cl); Yannick Tim Berne (as); Oscar Noriega (cl, Although every care is taken to ensure Singéry (p); Georges d’Halluin (b); after his band had played with bcl); Matt Mitchell (p, elec); Ryan accuracy and propriety, neither the Kansas Fields (d). Théâtre de Sidney, the American felt an Ferreira (g); Ches Smith (d, pc, vib, editor, nor the publishers necessarily Beaulieu, Lausanne, 1 April 1958. obligation to talk to each man tym). The Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, New York, December 2014. agree with opinions expressed in JJ by (11) as (10). Sion, 18 March 1958. about his performance and give contributors, nor indeed by readers in their tips to each of them. No doubt ECM 472 2298 published letters. (12) Claude Aubert’s Band: Raymond Droz (tb); Wally Fawkes such teaching was given to the ૽૽૽૽૽

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