No matter what he played, jazz's first great soprano saxophonist was rooted in the blues, as demonstrated by Bechet's spare, sympathetic accompaniment on Josh White's "Milk Cow Blues". "Wild Man Blues" is an archetypal example of hot-jazz ferocity, and Bechet was still wailing hard alongside Sarah Vaughan during a 1958 "Blues Ad Lib" jam recorded the year before his death.