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SIDNEY BECHET: THE COMPLETE VICTOR MASTER TAKES (Bluebird). THE COMPLETE SIDNEY BECHET ON BLUE NOTE (available from Mosaic, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902). Born in New Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension...
...about this time next year, Shedroff anticipates a time of reckoning, when he will choose either to continue pursuing his dream of becoming a jazz saxophonist or taking up Yale's offer and becoming a lawyer...
...grouchy cabdriver and a dissolute Jewish saxophonist strike up an uneasy friendship, with the cabby doggedly trying to reform the jazzman. TAXI BLUES doesn't sound like anything new, does it? The movie takes its story from Bertrand Tavernier's 1986 Round Midnight and its urgent, improvisatory spirit from a dozen John Cassavetes pictures. But Pavel Lounguine's drama is remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma...
...COMPLETE DEAN BENEDETTI RECORDINGS OF CHARLIE PARKER (Mosaic). Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker almost single-handedly changed the course of jazz history with his lightning-fingered improvisations, rhythmic subtleties and harmonic genius -- not to mention the fast-living, drug-shooting life-style that led to his death at 34 and was, unfortunately, widely imitated by his contemporaries. One such was Dean Benedetti, a West Coast jazzman who copied Bird in every way he could, down to and including his own premature death at 34. But Benedetti left behind an extraordinary legacy: a cache of impromptu recordings that he had made...
...Saxophonist...