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My Conversation with Don Byron
by AAJ Staff
Boy, this interview sure was fun. I find most writers tend to take themselves too seriously too often and Don Byron can sense that and jumps all over it. I have no problem admitting that Byron worked me over pretty damn good. Midway through our half hour conversation, I could feel the air being sucked out ...
Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
by Jim Santella
Don Byron's virtuosic clarinet technique allows him to stretch his limits this way and that. With piano and drums, he opens his program by setting the pace for adventure. With a glimpse of familiar melody here and a peek at remembered themes there, the clarinetist launches an improvisational tirade. Both his clarinet and bass clarinet enable ...
Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
by AAJ Staff
The expression “ivey-divey," like so many expressions in the jazz world, comes from Lester Young. It was Pres' term for permanent sadness, for living in the world through the blues, life with perpetual blues feeling. The album Ivey-Divey is Don Byron's look at Pres' great '46 trio session with Nat Cole and Buddy Rich. Byron's album, ...
Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
by John Kelman
Clarinetist Don Byron has fashioned a career something akin to a great jazz history lesson. With albums like Plays the Music of Mickey Katz and Bug Music , he demonstrated some of its traditional roots, whereas Music for Six Musicians and You are #6 explored the Latin and Afro-Cuban legacies. Tuskegee Experiments and the frighteningly good ...
Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
by Ty Cumbie
Jazz is deep into a critical phase, through which all mature art forms must pass--look out rock, your time is coming!--the point at which the music either changes or dies, becoming something different or a dusty museum piece. All who choose to enter the field at this time face this challenge, whether they know it or ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
You Are #6: More Music For Six Musicians
By Don Byron
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Theme fromHatari; You Are #6; Klang; B-Setting; A Whisper in my Ear (for Mario Bauza); Dub-Ya; Belmondo's Up; Shake 'em Up; You Are #6.5; No Whine; Dark Room; Belmondo's Up (DJ Spooky Mix).
You Are #6 : More Music For Six Musicians
By Don Byron
Label: Southport Records
Released: 2001
Don Byron: You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians
by AAJ Staff
“I am not a number. I am a free man," insists Patrick McGoohan's character on the late '60s British television series, The Prisoner. He responds to his captors' dictum, “You are Number Six," regarding his new identity. '80s heavy metal icons Iron Maiden ingeniously quote these lines as the introduction to their classic tune of the ...
Don Byron: You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians
by AAJ Staff
"I am not a number. I am a free man," insists Patrick McGoohan's character on the late '60s British television series, The Prisoner. He responds to his captors' dictum, “You are Number Six," regarding his new identity. '80s heavy metal icons Iron Maiden ingeniously quote these lines as the introduction to their classic tune of the ...
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