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Sidney Bechet james patterson true crime A young woman sits in"The definitive work on Bechet. This is one of those rare books that once started you have difficulty putting down." Jazz Journal Fifty years after hearing Sidney Bechet (1897 1959) in 1923, Duke Ellington recalled, "I have never forgotten the power and imagination with which he played." The first great jazz soloist, Bechet was a genius of the clarinet and the notoriously difficult soprano saxophone. In a career that spanned five decades and two