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Don Byas: Don Byas: Complete American Small Group Recordings
by Mike Neely
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 ...
The Complete Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings
By John Kirby
Label: Definitive Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: It Feels So Good; Effervescent Blues; The Turf; Dawn On The Desert; Anitra's Dance; Sweet Georgia Brown; Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes; Minute Waltz; Front And Center; Royal Garden Blues; Opus Five; Fantasy Impromptu; Blue Skies; Rose Room; I May Be Wrong But I Think You're Wonderful; Little Brown Jug; Nocturne; One Alone; Humoresque; Serenade; Jumpin' In The Pump Room; Milumbu; You Go Your Way; 20th Century Closet; Temptation; Blues Petite; On A Little Street In Singapore; Chloe; Andiology; Can't We Be Friends; Then I'll Be Happy; I Love You Truly; Frasquita Serenade; Sextet From Lucia D. Lammermoor; Coquette; Zooming At The Zombie; Bounce Of The Sugar Plum Fairies; Beethoven Riffs On; Double Talk (A Fugue); Cuttin' The Campus; Close Shave; Bugler's Dilemma; It's Only A Paper Moon; Fifi's Rhapsody; Night Whispers; Tweed Me; Move Over; Wondering Where; Keep Smilin'; Comin' Back; No Blues At All; St. Louis Blues.
John Kirby: The Complete Columbia & RCA Victor Recordings
by Craig Jolley
There were only about four good bass players during the 1930's, and John Kirby wasn't one. Still, he somehow made his name (in part because of connections and good looks), and he led one of the most popular small bands of the time. Pete Brown (alto) and Frank Newton (trumpet), both magnificent blues players, began as ...
Charlie Christian: The Complete Charlie Christian
by Craig Jolley
Note: This review covers the four-disk sets The Complete Studio Recordings and The Complete Live Recordings. Charlie Christian is often described as the first great electric guitar soloist, but he was more. Together with Lester Young, Nat Cole, Coleman Hawkins, and Roy Eldridge he paved the way for bebop by stretching swing era rhythmic and harmonic ...
