Search results for "Don Byron"

Don Byron: I've Found A New Baby (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 26, 09

"Ivey-divey" was an expression Lester Young created and used to convey resignation, sadness, or frustration, and Don ...

Don Byron: I'll Follow the Sun (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 06, 08

Multifaceted clarinetist Don Byron scores huge with this cover of Paul McCartney's divine "I'll Follow the Sun." His ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BEATLES

During the 1960s, jazz became more stylistically diverse than ever. Conventional norms were assertively challen...

Don Byron: A Mural from Two Perspectives (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Since he was named “Jazz Artist of the Year” by Down Beat in 1992 after the release of his debut album, The Tuskegee ...

Allen Toussaint: Long, Long Journey (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

If you glance at the track details, you might puzzle over this concoction. A New Orleans theme album, but named afte...

Bill Frisell: Billy the Kid (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 07, 09

William Bonney, known as "Billy the Kid," was a young punk who wreaked havoc in Lincoln County, NM. His bad reputatio...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA

         Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...

Bill Frisell: Live to Tell (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Bill Frisell's entire career is represented here in a single, 10-minute microcosm. The slowly building melodic concep...

Bill Frisell: Strange Meeting (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Bill Frisell’s pair of recordings from 1992, a wide-ranging collection of covers entitled Have a Little Faith and thi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Uri Caine & Don Byron in Sardinia posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 24, 08

Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, concludes his coverage of on an unusual jazz festival ...

Byron, Don posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Byron, Don, clarinet, composer, arranger, saxophones; b. Nov. 8, 1958, in the Bronx, New York City . His father was a...

In Conversation With Jack DeJohnette posted in Features and Interviews June 15, 09

By Ted Panken                 ...

Colligan, George (George Harrington Colligan IV) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Colligan, George [George Harrington Colligan IV], pianist; b. Summit, NJ, 29 December 1969. Grew up in Columbia, Mary...

In Conversation with Uri Caine posted in Features and Interviews August 14, 08

By Ted Panken                  ...

Alessi, Ralph (Peter) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Alessi, Ralph (Peter) , trumpeter; b. San Francisco, CA, 5 March 1963. Ralph Alessi began studying the trumpet at the...

Workman, Reggie (Reginald) posted in Encyclopedia July 16, 09

Bassist Reggie Workman has cultivated an advanced understanding of hard bop and avant-garde jazz through his many yea...

Harris, Jerome (Estese) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Harris, Jerome (Estese), bass, guitar; b. Memorial Hospital of Queens, Flushing, NY, 5 April 1953. His family moved f...

Sardinia Presents Time in Jazz posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 20, 08

Paris-based Thierry Quénum, a regular contributor to jazz.com, sends us this report on an unusual jazz festival in a ...

OctoJAZZarian Profile: Buddy DeFranco posted in Features and Interviews October 16, 09

For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...

Gress, Drew (Andrew Daniel) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Gress, Drew (Andrew Daniel), bassist/composer; b. Trenton, NJ, 20 November 1959. He grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania....

Bernstein, Steven (Michael) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bernstein, Steven (Michael), trumpet, slide trumpet, mellophone, band leader, arranger, composer, conductor; b. Washi...

Douglas, Dave (David Dewel) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Douglas, Dave (David Dewel), trumpet, composer; b. East Orange, NJ, 24 March 1963. Dave Douglas began playing improvi...

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