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Up A Lazy River
Featuring the music of Louis Prima
Duration: 2:58
Sidney Bechet: Up a Lazy River

by Robert Spencer
Sidney Bechet was the first master of the soprano saxophone, and indeed, the father of all the others: when the instrument was almost forgotten, Steve Lacy heard Bechet play Duke Ellington's The Mooche." Then John Coltrane was somehow (there are different versions of the story) introduced to the soprano by Lacy. And the rest is history. ...