Duke Ellington in Howard Theatre - 1921
from Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress, page 66:
Sidney Bechet was one of the truly great originals. I shall never forget the first time I heard him play, at the Howard Theatre in Washington around 1921. I had never heard anything like it. It was a completely new sound and conception to me.
cite as
Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress (New Jersey, 1973), p. 66. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1429001100474 accessed: 6 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composershorns | performed by Sidney Bechet |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1921 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:45:00 +0100
Approved on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:11:29 +0100