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Don Byron: A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder
by AAJ Staff
Don Byron continues to fascinate and puzzle jazz listeners with his refusal to be pigeonholed.Even as he completes one project, he's working on the next one, which inevitably will be a departure from all of the CDs that precede it. Yet, each of Byron's CD's enlarge not only the body of his work, but also the fullness of his musical perspective.Possessing interests in jazz, classical works, pop, klezmer, country/western, funk, theatrical repertoire, rap and Latin music, ...
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by Craig Jolley
Don Byron, jazz clarinetist, takes a back seat to Don Byron, arranger and conceptualist. His “legitimate" clarinet is featured on the piano-clarinet duets and on the one solo clarinet cut, but most of the CD is given over to his meticulous vocal arrangements. Each tune has its own flavor with composers from many genres represented. Notably there are no 1930's show tunes, although Mancini's “Soldier in the Rain" and Sondheim's “The Ladies Who Lunch" extend that noble tradition. Ledford comfortably ...
Continue ReadingDon Byron: Romance With The Unseen
by Jim Santella
Born and raised in the Bronx, clarinetist Don Byron has ideas to share that reflect upon many aspects common to folks all around the world. But he ties those thoughts together with a thread that weaves through America's urban centers where jazz evolved over the past century. Swinging with an all-star mainstream quartet, Byron paints pictures of everyday life and lifestyles, of the people we see everywhere, and of our feelings toward them. Don Byron's father played bass in calypso ...
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