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...best jazz of all was to be heard in a basement club on the Near North Side called Jazz Ltd. There the big name was grizzled old Soprano Saxman Sidney Bechet (TIME, March 31), whose last club engagement in Chicago was at the Deluxe Cafe in 1918, when he came out of New Orleans' Storyville after the whorehouses were shut down during World War I. Old Sidney, who had recently been favoring one side of his mouth because of an infected tooth, sounded all the better for a new store tooth. Playing alongside him was a trombonist named Munn...
...fourth in the series of programs will be on American jazz and, as tentatively planned, will consist of a concert by Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Wild Bill Davison, Pops Foster, Freddie Moore, and J. P. Johnson. Next on the schedule is the radio, then literature, painting, the dance, and films...
This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Hot Pianist James P. Johnson and Hot Saxophonist Sidney Bechet, in a tribute to the late Fats Waller...
...Sidney Bechet, who is 49 but looks older, has delivered the same two-beat jazz over half the U.S., in London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. With his pals, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Zutty Singleton, he has played it on nearly 100 records. Experts have named him on their all-star bands. But he hasn't made a fortune...
What is he trying to say? As Sidney Bechet tells it: "Three old men is trying to convince the world of something you've heard about. Who's going to explain it? All the other musicians is dead. As fast as you explain it, the radio comes on and tells you you're wrong." He wrinkles his forehead and says: "I'd like to bring back that old feeling of music which is nothing but life; that's what I'd like to bring back to life...