Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier play "Sweet Sue, Just You", one of eight numbers they recorded across two sessions in 1940. The empathy between the two is a demonstration what jazz really means.
Bechet can be both boisterous and tender: his 64 bar soprano sax solo (two choruses!) is gloriously rhapsodic, while his counterpoint subtone clarinet playing under Carmen Mastren's excellent guitar solo is gracefully subtle (great string bass playing by Wellman Braud here too). The coda is simple but just great!
BECHET-SPANIER BIG FOUR
Sidney Bechet - soprano sax, clarinet / Muggsy Spanier - cornet / Carmen Mastren - guitar / Wellman Braud - string bass
Recorded in New York, April 6, 1940
2804-2…….Sweet Sue…….HRS 2003
Sidney Bechet and Muggsy Spanier play "Sweet Sue, Just You", one of eight numbers they recorded across two sessions in 1940. The empathy between the two is a demonstration what jazz really means.
Bechet can be both boisterous and tender: his 64 bar soprano sax solo (two choruses!) is gloriously rhapsodic, while his counterpoint subtone clarinet playing under Carmen Mastren's excellent guitar solo is gracefully subtle (great string bass playing by Wellman Braud here too). The coda is simple but just great!
BECHET-SPANIER BIG FOUR
Sidney Bechet - soprano sax, clarinet / Muggsy Spanier - cornet / Carmen Mastren - guitar / Wellman Braud - string bass
Recorded in New York, April 6, 1940
2804-2…….Sweet Sue…….HRS 2003
