Sidney Bechet

“Bechet — apart from the strength and inspiration of his family background in New Orleans — found most of his early creative inspiration from living…”

Bechet. Image: NPR

Sidney Bechet’s superb 1960 autobiography Treat it Gentle, recorded on tape by Joan Williams and Desmond Flower, gives a very personal insight into the life of a jazz musician of the first half of the 20th century.