{"id":37696,"date":"2013-05-31T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=37696"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:16:59","slug":"sidney-bechet-some-musing-on-the-demise-of-the-sarrusophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2013\/sidney-bechet-some-musing-on-the-demise-of-the-sarrusophone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Bechet & Some Musings On The Demise Of The Sarrusophone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: en.wikipedia.org Photo by William P. Gottlieb<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been on the Contrabass email list<\/a> for more than a decade now, and every once in a while someone posts a message to the group that I find incredibly informative. Take for example, yesterday’s note sent out to the group by Phil. Phil found a recording on YouTube of Sidney Bechet playing a bass sarrusophone.<\/p>\n

Now we all know that Sidney Bechet was a pioneer in jazz soprano saxophone playing, and that prior to that, he was an accomplished clarinetist. But how many of us knew that he ever played sarrusophone, let alone bass sarrusophone? Certainly not me. Yet in this 1924 recording of Mandy Make Up Your Mind<\/em>, Bechet plays not only his soprano saxophone, but also the bass sarrusophone.<\/p>\n