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Memphis May Fire is an American post-hardcore band currently based in Texas. The band signed to Trustkill Records in 2007 and released on self-titled EP, with a debut album expected to be released in 2009. The band's music has been compared to Every Time I Die, He Is Legend and Underoath. The band formed in December 2006, but it was not until February 2007 that the group decided on the name Memphis May Fire. In early 2007, the band recorded and self-released an EP, and began creating a local following. Shortly thereafter, Memphis May Fire caught the attention of Josh...

Sidney Bechet (* 14. Mai 1897 in New Orleans; † 14. Mai 1959 in Paris) war ein kreolischer Sopransaxophonist und Klarinettist. Sidney Bechet arbeitete als Straßenmusiker in New Orleans. 1917 verließ er New Orleans und ging nach Chicago. Erste Schallplatten-Aufnahmen machte er 1923 mit „Clarence Williams' Blue Five“, in dieser Besetzung zeitweilig gemeinsam mit Louis Armstrong, den er schon seit seiner Kindheit aus New Orleans kannte. Bechet war neben Jelly Roll Morton und Louis Armstrong einer der wichtigen Solisten des frühen Jazz. Als Jazzmusiker aus New Orleans wurde er vor allem in Frankreich populär, wo er sich weniger dem Rassismus...

Sidney began in friendship. George Haberis and Henry Withers have known each other for some time, even before playing in Lovvers and Prize Pets, and made music together as Sharm El Shakes; when the bass player moved to a rent controlled apartment in Manhattan they couldn't let their snappy union of incisively cracking guitar parts and observations about cities and the melancholy of romance be lost forever so they started Sidney with Prize Pets drummer Joe Coope & Robert "Sluggo" Hughes on bass. .