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Don Byas Quartet: Featuring Sir Charles Thompson

Read "Featuring Sir Charles Thompson" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Don Byas, believing he was never going to get the recognition he deserved in this country because of bigotry, left the United States for Europe and never looked back. Virtually all of his good work was done on the Continent. Usually cited as one of the first tenor saxophonist to take up Bop, Byas never let go of his romantic and swinging roots. This reissue of a free wheeling live performance demonstrates how successful Byas was in merging all these ...

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