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Sidney Bechet

1897 - 1959

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Sidney Joseph Bechet ( beh-SHAY; May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic temperament hampered his career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sidney Bechet has received more than 938,225 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Sidney Bechet is the 285th most popular musician (down from 278th in 2019), the 1,614th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,639th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Musician.

Sidney Bechet is most famous for being a jazz clarinetist. He was also a saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger.

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  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Sidney Bechet ranks 285 out of 3,175. Before him are Burt Bacharach, Michael Cretu, Mischa Maisky, Marilyn Manson, Ian Curtis, and Bill Haley. After him are Kirk Hammett, John Mayall, Eddie Cochran, Yanni, Art Tatum, and Leopold Auer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Sidney Bechet ranks 68. Before him are Ana Aslan, Jiroemon Kimura, Vito Genovese, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karl Löwith, and Hans Baur. After him are Adolf Heusinger, Mukhtar Auezov, Thornton Wilder, Sepp Herberger, Philippe Soupault, and Károly Kerényi. Among people deceased in 1959, Sidney Bechet ranks 34. Before him are Ettore Majorana, John Foster Dulles, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Wanda Landowska, and Rudolf Caracciola. After him are Ethel Barrymore, Olga Knipper, Edmond Debeaumarché, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, D. F. Malan, and Ichirō Hatoyama.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Bechet ranks 1,614 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Joseph Nye (1937), and Frank Drake (1930). After him are Cliff Robertson (1923), Edward James Olmos (1947), Karen Allen (1951), Frederick Herzberg (1923), Billy Milligan (1955), and John C. Mather (1946).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Sidney Bechet ranks 79. Before him are J. J. Cale (1938), Charles Mingus (1922), Art Blakey (1919), Burt Bacharach (1928), Marilyn Manson (1969), and Bill Haley (1925). After him are Kirk Hammett (1962), Eddie Cochran (1938), Art Tatum (1909), Sixto Rodriguez (1942), Jerry Reed (1937), and John Densmore (1944).

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