The Stars of Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology

Sidney Bechet
The new box includes three takes on Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag": a 1975 Dick Hyman recording straight from the sheet music, a take by avant-gardists Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, and one by saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet.

• Jazz Photographer Herman Leonard