Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 1959)

Sidney Bechet

American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer (1897–1959)

Sidney Joseph Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did…