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Where to start with Sidney Bechet
Start with Blame It On The Blues - Alternate Take — The Best Of Sidney Bechet, 1994. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 18 Sidney Bechet tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 18 Sidney Bechet tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 18 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Blame It On The Blues - Alternate Take — The Best Of Sidney Bechet, 1994. Of the 18 Sidney Bechet tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
Only one entry point is offered for Sidney Bechet. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
Where Sidney Bechet sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Sidney Bechet's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 | 18 |
Every Sidney Bechet track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| All Of Me | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Basin Street Blues | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Bechet's Fantasy | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Blame It On The Blues - Alternate Take | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Blue Horizon | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Copenhagen | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| I Found A New Baby | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Muskrat Ramble | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Old Stack O'Lee Blues | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Porto Rico | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Rose Of The Rio Grande | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Sister Kate's Night Out | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| St. Louis Blues | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Summertime | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
| When The Saints Go Marching In | The Best Of Sidney Bechet | 1994 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Sidney Bechet's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with ESKA — jazz, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Herbie Hancock — jazz, 16 tracks
- Where to start with Sun Ra — jazz, 53 tracks
What the open databases say
This room has no MusicBrainz record for Sidney Bechet, so there are no external facts to report here — only what is in the collection itself.
Questions
How many Sidney Bechet tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 18, across 1 album. 18 of them carry a date, running from 1994 to 1994. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 18 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 18 of these 18 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.