Home » Search Center » Results: Don Byas

Results for "Don Byas"

Advanced search options

Album

1951-1952

By Don Byas

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2003

Album

Don Byas: Complete American Small Group Recordings

By Don Byas

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

362

Article: Album Review

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 ...

Album

En Ce Temps-Là

By Don Byas

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2002

Album

A Night In Tunesia

By Don Byas

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2002

Album

Gloria

By Don Byas

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2002

Album

1947-1951

By Don Byas

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2002

Album

Featuring Sir Charles Thompson

By Don Byas

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; Darn That Dream; Bag's Groove; Tenderly; But Not for Me; Gone with the Wind; The Girl from Ipanema; Loverman; Stella by Starlight; Jumpin' at Basie's

179

Article: Album Review

Don Byas Quartet: Featuring Sir Charles Thompson

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

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 ...

Album