There had been soloists, to be sure, with the clarinetist Sidney Bechet the best known among them, but these players " lacked the technical resources and, even more, the creative depth to make the solo the compelling centerpiece of jazz music.

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

Manhattan press agent Sidney Falco ( Tony Curtis ) has been unable to get his clients mentioned in J. J. Hunsecker's ( Burt Lancaster ) influential, nationally syndicated newspaper column of late because of Falco's failure to make good on a promise to break up the romance between Hunsecker's younger sister Susan ( Susan Harrison ) and musician Steve Dallas ( Martin Milner ), an up-and-coming jazz guitarist.

The label's first releases were traditional " hot " jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of " Summertime " by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies.

Sidney Bechet ( May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959 ) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

A very unusual example of the sarrusophone in jazz is on the 1924 recording by the Clarence Williams Blue 5 of " Mandy, Make Up Your Mind ," with the sarrusophone played by the jazz soprano saxophone and clarinet virtuoso Sidney Bechet.

Noone is generally regarded as one of the greatest of the second generation of jazz clarinetists, along with Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet.

* Ernest Ansermet writes an enthusiastic review of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra in London, singling out Sidney Bechet-one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism.

* May 14 – Sidney Bechet, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer ( died 1959 )

In 1938 and 1939 the researchers / writers of the first book of jazz history, Jazzmen, interviewed several prominent musicians of the time, including Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Clarence Williams, who spoke very highly of Bunk in the old days in New Orleans.

Playing both tenor and soprano saxophones, Shorter continued to develop the role of the latter instrument in jazz, taking his cue from previous work by Coltrane, Sidney Bechet, Lucky Thompson and Steve Lacy.

Many classic jazz performances by the likes of King Oliver, Lucille Bogan, Sidney Bechet, Hattie McDaniel, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington were recorded by Okeh.

Kenneth Sidney " Kenny " Drew ( August 28, 1928 – August 4, 1993 ) was an American jazz pianist.

For the next two years he played with such jazz greats as cornetist Rex Stewart, clarinetist-soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, pianists Earl Hines, Willie " The Lion " Smith, pianist Fats Waller, pianist James P. Johnson, pianist Duke Ellington and their various groups.

He continued to explore African music, while also recording blues, ballads, spirituals ( on the 1977 album Goin ' Home with Horace Parlan ) and tributes to more traditional jazz figures like Charlie Parker and Sidney Bechet, while at other times dabbling in R & B, and recording with various European artists like Jasper van't Hof, Tchangodei and Dresch Mihály.

He experienced his first real jazz concert when he saw American jazz musician Sidney Bechet while still in school at Wuppertal, and it made a lasting impression.

He went to concerts in his native Berlin as soon as they would let him in, listening, among others, to Marlene Dietrich, the Weintraub Syncopators and jazz saxophonist Sidney Bechet.

Other influential stylists who are still revered in traditional jazz circles today include Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Wingy Manone and Muggsy Spanier.

Sid Torin ( born Sidney Tarnopol on December 14, 1909 – died September 14, 1984 ) was a long-time jazz disk jockey in the United States.

Heckstall-Smith completed his education at Dartington Hall School before reading agriculture – and co-leading the university jazz band – at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 1953.

The New York Syncopated Orchestra — he had created — toured the United States in 1918 and then went to England in 1919 for a command performance for King George V. Among his company were assistant director Will Tyers, jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet, and Cook's wife, Abbie Mitchell.

He is also remembered for financing a number of jazz records by artists such as Sidney Bechet and Tommy Ladnier.

* Ajax, pen name of Australian nature writer Sidney William Jackson

She is the niece of Diana Barrymore and the grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, the great-great-granddaughter of John Drew and actress Louisa Lane Drew, and the great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor / writer / director Sidney Drew.

* August 23 – Sidney Howard, American writer ( b. 1891 )

* September 7 – Sidney Lanier, American writer ( b. 1842 )

* February 3 – Sidney Lanier, American writer ( d. 1881 )

* October 27 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator ( d. 1621 )

* September 25 – Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator ( b. 1561 )

According to writer / director Sidney J. Furie, the film's working title was Junior Eagle.

Mary Sidney, who upon her marriage became the Countess of Pembroke, was a writer, translator and literary patron.

Isaac Sidney " Sid " Caesar ( born September 8, 1922 ) is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer best known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and for his role as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.

* January 22-Beatrice Webb, political writer, wife and collaborator of Sidney Webb

* October 27-Mary Sidney, writer and translator ( died 1621 )

* Sidney Perley ( 1858 – 1928 ), lawyer, writer, author, poet, historian

" Legal writer Sidney Zion quipped that Kunstler was " one of the few lawyers in town who knows how to talk to the press.

Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet cast him as a young writer in Stage Struck.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Pisa are Italian Presidents Giovanni Gronchi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ; Haitian President René Préval ; Nicaraguan President Adan Cardenas ; Pope Clement XII ; Italian Prime Ministers Sidney Sonnino, Giuliano Amato and Massimo D ' Alema ; Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi ; Italian political leaders Carlo Sforza, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Alessandro Natta, Enrico Letta, Marcello Pera, Fabio Mussi and Sandro Bondi ; Italian Constitutional Court Judge Sabino Cassese ; Roman Catholic Cardinals Pietro Accolti, Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Francesco Barberini, Francesco Martelli and Bandino Panciatici ; Roman Catholic Archbishop Giovanni Battista Rinuccini ; Nobel Laureate in Literature Giosuè Carducci ; Nobel Laureates in Physics Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia ; anatomist Atto Tigri ; art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ; author Antonio Tabucchi ; civil engineer Henry Willey Reveley ; computer scientist Roberto Di Cosmo ; diplomats Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo and Marcello Spatafora ; director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli ; economist Luigi Bodio ; egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini ; electron microscopist Clara Franzini-Armstrong ; geneticist Guido Pontecorvo ; historians Camillo Porzio and Carlo Ginzburg ; intellectual Adriano Sofri ; international civil servant Francesco Cappè ; journalists Lando Ferretti and Tiziano Terzani ; jurists Piero Calamandrei, Francesco Carrara and Antonio Cassese ; linguists Stefano Arduini and Luigi Rizzi ; manager Pier Francesco Guarguaglini ; mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri, Giovanni Ceva, Enrico Betti, Guido Fubini, Vito Volterra and Luigi Fantappiè ; neuroscientist Emilio Bizzi ; philosophers Giovanni Gentile and Anna Camaiti Hostert ; physicians Francesco Redi, Vincenzo Chiarugi and François Carlo Antommarchi ; physicists Adolfo Bartoli, Luigi Puccianti, Antonio Pacinotti, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, Franco Rasetti and Luca Gammaitoni ; playwright and librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini ; racing car and engine designer Carlo Chiti ; surgeon Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri ; tenor Andrea Bocelli ; writer Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.

In addition, an HBO miniseries titled The Devil and Sidney Korshak is being developed with writer Art Monterastelli adapting.

Tell Me Your Dreams is a 1998 novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.

The Doomsday Conspiracy is a thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon published in 1991.

Windmills of the Gods is a 1987 thriller novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon.

In April 1969, it was announced that Strouse, Adams, and book writer Sidney Michaels were beginning to work on the show, with Lawrence Kasha producing.

The Other Side of Midnight is a novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon published in 1973.

* TCM Remembers 2007: Solveig Dommartin, Ulrich Mühe, producer Carlo Ponti, Charles Lane, Miyoshi Umeki, Mala Powers, writer Peter Viertel, writer Norman Mailer, Barbara McNair, producer Sidney Sheldon, Ron Carey, cinematographer László Kovács, director Delbert Mann, writer A. I. Bezzerides, Bud Ekins, Deborah Kerr, Calvin Lockhart, Betty Hutton, Marcel Marceau, film critic Joel Siegel, Yvonne De Carlo, Bobby Mauch, Lois Maxwell, Barry Nelson, make-up artist William J. Tuttle, Alice Ghostley, Jack Williams, Gordon Scott, Laraine Day, Roscoe Lee Browne, Michel Serrault, writer Bernard Gordon, Richard Jeni, Kitty Carlisle Hart, director Bob Clark, director Richard Franklin, cinematographer Freddie Francis, Kerwin Mathews, Frankie Laine, Robert Goulet, Jack Valenti, director Michelangelo Antonioni, Jane Wyman and director Ingmar Bergman.