The Best of Sidney Bechet

THE BEST OF SIDNEY BECHET
THE NEW ORLEANS FEETWARMERS: Tommy Ladnier (tp), Teddy Nixon (tb), Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Henry Duncan (p), Wilson Myers (b), Morris Morand (dm) - Sept. 15, 1932
1 Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
NOBLE SISSLE’S SWINGSTERS: Sidney Bechet (cl), Jimmy Miller (g), Jimmy Jones (b), Wilber Kirk (dm) - Apr. 16, 1937
2 Okey Doke (Sissle - Bechet)
SIDNEY BECHET AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Sidney Bechet (sop), Ernie Caceres
(bar), Dave Bowman (p), Leonard Ware (g), Ed Robinson (b), Zutty Singleton (dm) - Nov. 16, 1938
3 What A Dream (Bechet)
TOMMY LADNIER AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Tommy Ladnier (tp), Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Mezz Mezzrow (cl, ten), Cliff Jackson (p), Teddy Bunn (g), Elmer James (b), Manzie Johnson (dm) - Nov. 28, 1938
4 Really The Blues (Mezzrow)
5 Ja-Da (Carleton)
SIDNEY BECHET AND HIS NEW ORLEANS FEETWARMERS: Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Sonny White (p), Charlie Howard (g), Wilson Myers (b), Kenny Clarke (dm)
- Feb. 5, 1940
6 Indian Summer (Dubin - Herbert)
SIDNEY BECHET’S QUARTET: Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Teddy Bunn (g),
Pops Foster (b), Sidney Catlett (dm) - March 27, 1940
7 Dear Old Southland (Creamer - Layton)
BECHET - SPANIER BIG FOUR: Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Muggsy Spanier (cn), Carmen Mastren (g), Wellman Braud (b) - March 28, 1940
8 That's A-Plenty (Gilbert - Pollack)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Louis Armstrong (tp), Claude Jones (tb), Sidney Bechet (sop), Luis Russell (p), Bernard Addison (g), Wellman Braud (b), Zutty Singleton (dm) - May 27, 1940
9 Down In Honky Tonk Town (Smith - McCarron)
SIDNEY BECHET AND HIS NEW ORLEANS FEETWARMERS: Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Sidney De Paris (tb), Sandy Williams (tb), Cliff Jackson (p), Bernard Addison (g), Wellman Braud (b), Sidney Catlett (dm) - June 4, 1940
10 Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning (Delaney)
Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Rex Stewart (cn), Earl Hines (p), John
Lindsay (b), Baby Dodds (dm) - Sept. 6, 1940
11 Stompy Jones (Ellington)
Bechet, Hines and Dodds only - same session
12 Blues In Thirds (Hines)
Sidney Bechet (cl), Henry Allen (tp), J.C. Higginbotham (tb), James Tolliver (p), Wellman Braud (b), J. C. Heard (dm) - Jan. 8, 1941
13 Egyptian Fantasy (Bechet - Reid)
Sidney Bechet (sop), Charlie Shavers (tp), Willike “The Lion” Smith (p),Everett Barksdale (g), Wellma Braud (b), Manzie Johnson (dm)
14 I'm Coming Virginia (Cook - Heywood)
Sidney Bechet (sop), Vic Dickenson (tb), Don Donaldson (p), Wilson Myers (b), Wilbert Kirk (dm) - Dec. 9, 1943 (V-Disc session)
15 After You've Gone (Creamer - Layton)
SIDEY BECHET’S JAZZMEN: Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Sidney De Paris (tp), Vic Dickenson (tb), Art Hodes (p), Pops Foster (b), Manzie Johnson (dm)
- Dec. 20, 1944
16 St. Louis Blues (Handy)
17 Jazz Me Blues (Delaney)
18 Blue Horizon (Bechet)
19 Muskrat Ramble (Ory)
MEZZROW - BECHET SEPTET: Mezz Mezzrow (cl), Sidney Bechet (sop), “Hot Lips” Page (tp), Sammy Price (p), Danny Barker (g), Pops Foster (b), Sidney Catlett (dm) - July 30, 1945
20 House Party (Mezzrow - Bechet)
MEZZROW - BECHET QUINTET: Sidney Bechet (sop), Mezz Mezzrow (cl), Fitz Weston (p ), Pops Foster (b), Kaiser Marshall (dm) - July 30, 45
21 Perdido Street Stomp (Mezzrow - Bechet)
BECHET - NICHOLAS BLUE FIVE - Sidney Bechet (cl, sop), Albert Nicholas (cl), Art Hodes (p), Pops Foster (b), Danny Alvin (dm) - Feb. 12, 1946
22 Old Stack O' Lee Blues (traditional)
23 Quincy Street Stomp (aka: Blame It on the Blues) (Cooke)