Petite fleur by Sidney Bechet played on a chromatic harmonica..

Life of Sidney Bechet:
Bechet was born in New Orleans in 1897. From a young age, Bechet quickly mastered any musical instrument he encountered. Some New Orleanians remembered him as a cornet hot-shot in his youth. At first he decided on the clarinet as his main instrument, and Bechet remained one of jazz's greatest clarinetists for decades. However, he is best remembered as the master of the soprano saxophone. Bechet was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well conceived, improvised ideas, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing.

Bechet had experience playing in traveling shows even before he left New Orleans at the age of 20. Never long content in one place, he alternated using Chicago, New York, and Europe as his base of operations until finally settling in France in 1950. Bechet married Elisabeth Ziegler in Antibes, France in 1951.

Shortly before his death in Paris, in 1959, Bechet dictated his poetic autobiography, Treat It Gentle. He died on his 62nd birthday.