{"id":9802,"date":"2018-07-19T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=9802"},"modified":"2018-07-19T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T21:21:33","slug":"followup-bechet-by-liebman-and-stowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2018\/07\/followup-bechet-by-liebman-and-stowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Followup: Bechet By Liebman And Stowell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the June 28 Rifftides<\/em> review of the Scenes<\/strong> trio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Destinations<\/em> album, its guitarist, John Stowell, sent this comment:<\/p>\n

“Your readers might also enjoy the recent duo CD I recorded with Dave Liebman. It was Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s idea to do Sidney Bechet tunes. The record, Petite Fleur<\/em><\/a>, is also on Origin.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liebman, like virtually all contemporary soprano saxophonists including John Coltrane and Steve Lacy, is a third- or fourth-generation descendant of Bechet. He is generally considered a tenor and soprano saxophonist of the post-John Coltrane school, but Liebman and Stowell find the Bechet spirit in an album with no fewer than three versions of Bechet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best-known composition, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Petite Fleur,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one of them by Liebman playing piano, another with Stowell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unaccompanied guitar. In his album notes, Liebman explains that he does not attempt to duplicate what may be the most notable aspect of Bechet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s soprano sound. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It still mystifies me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Liebman writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as to how he employed such a deep and wide vibrato!!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Without imitating the vibrato, he manages to evoke Bechet in ten pieces associated with the great New Orleanian, including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Si Tu Vois Ma Mere\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (“If You See My Mother.”)<\/p>\n

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