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A Matter of Black and White
By Jaki Byard
Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Seasons; Billie Holiday Tribute: God Bless The Child/Lover Man;
Alexander's Ragtime Band; Hello Young Lovers; Do You Know What It
Means To Miss New Orleans; I Know A Place; 'Round Midnight; Sunday;
Ellington-Strayhorn Medley: Lush Life/Day Dream/Johnny Come Lately.
Jaki Byard: A Matter of Black and White
by Charles Walker
Curious title for this album. Sure, it's a nice pun on the pianistic adventures included, but with the possible exception of Duke Ellington or Mary Lou Williams, there was hardly another jazz pianist of the mid-20th Century who saw more gray areas in the music's broad landscape than the late Jaki Byard. In his trio sessions ...