Sidney Bechet - Les Annees Bechet

Release date 1997.

18 Track French "best of".

"In 1950 he moved to France, after his performance as a soloist at the Paris Jazz Fair caused a surge in his popularity in that country, where he easily found well-paid work. In 1951, he married Elisabeth Ziegler in Antibes.

In 1953, he signed a recording contract with Disques Vogue that lasted for the rest of his life. He recorded many hit tunes, including "Les Oignons", "Promenade aux Champs-Elysees", and the international hit "Petite Fleur". He also composed a classical ballet score in the late Romantic style of Tchaikovsky called La Nuit est une sorcière ("The Night Is a Witch"). Some existentialists in France took to calling him le dieu ("the god")."

from wikipedia