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Hugo Siegmeth: Red Onions - Celebrating Sidney Bechet

Read "Red Onions - Celebrating Sidney Bechet" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Questo Red Onions - Celebrating Sidney Bechet del trentaseienne sassofonista tedesco (ma rumeno di nascita) Hugo Siegmeth, è un disco che riappacifica con il mainstream. Come appare evidente dal titolo, il lavoro è dedicato a Sidney Bechet, uno dei più rappresentativi simboli della storia del jazz, pioniere della sua diffusione in Europa, ma anche di quello strumento fino a qualche decennio fa così poco diffuso, qual è il sax soprano. E di Bechet Siegmeth riprende buona parte del repertorio (oltre ...

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Hugo Siegmeth: Red Onions: Celebrating Sidney Bechet

Read "Red Onions: Celebrating Sidney Bechet" reviewed by Chris May


Against the odds, this is an audacious and mesmerising album--the second tribute album in as many weeks, after Pat Martino's Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery, to confound expectations.

Hugo Siegmeth is a 36 year-old German reed player whose style owes nothing to the great soprano saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet (1897-1959). His astringent and quirky lyricism has instead developed out of Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson. These musicians, along with younger, freer players, provide the prism through ...


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