Sidney Bechet, the maverick clarinettist/soprano saxophonist from New Orleans, was the first truly great jazz soloist to appear on Blue Note. The label has some of his finest work, showing the ...
It is well known that the Nazi regime denounced modernist art as “degenerate”, but not so well known that the Third Reich also proscribed “Entartete Musik” or “degenerate music”. Another name for this ...