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Don Byas: Complete American Small Group Recordings

By Don Byas

Label: Definitive Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: DISC ONE: Riffin

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Don Byas: Don Byas: Complete American Small Group Recordings

Read "Don Byas: Complete American Small Group Recordings" reviewed by Mike Neely

by Mike Neely
January 13, 2003

Oklahoma born tenor saxophonist Don Byas moved easily between swing and bebop with an earthy, blues sound that brings to mind Coleman Hawkins but with a lightness of touch and rhythmic agility reminiscent of Lester Young. He successfully synthesized these two influences, in many ways updating them into the bebop era. Byas mastered the breathtaking tempos ...