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Don Byron: You Are #6: More Music For Six Musicians

Read "You Are #6: More Music For Six Musicians" reviewed by Jim Santella


Remember West Side Story ? Remember how well the music captured the essence of New York City in the 1950s? Latin music was only a part of it. New York blends many different kinds of music that immigrants have brought into the city through two centuries of change. Due out October 23rd, Don Byron's second release ...

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A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2000

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A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Check Up; Zwielicht; Glitter And Be Gay Basquiat; It's Over; Creepin'; Nessun Dorma; Soldier In The Rain; Reach Out I'll Be There; The Ladies Who Do Lunch; Larghetto.

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Don Byron: A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder

Read "A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Don Byron continues to fascinate and puzzle jazz listeners with his refusal to be pigeonholed.Even as he completes one project, he's working on the next one, which inevitably will be a departure from all of the CDs that precede it. Yet, each of Byron's CD's enlarge not only the body of his work, but ...

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Don Byron: A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder

Read "A Fine Line: Arias & Lieder" reviewed by Craig Jolley


Don Byron, jazz clarinetist, takes a back seat to Don Byron, arranger and conceptualist. His “legitimate" clarinet is featured on the piano-clarinet duets and on the one solo clarinet cut, but most of the CD is given over to his meticulous vocal arrangements. Each tune has its own flavor with composers from many genres represented. Notably ...

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Romance With The Unseen

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: A Mural From Two Perspectives; Sad Twilight; Bernard Goetz, James Ramseur, and Me; I'll Follow the Sun; 'Lude; Homegoing; One Finger Snap; Basquiat; Perdido; Closer to Home.

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Don Byron: Romance With The Unseen

Read "Romance With The Unseen" reviewed by Jim Santella


Born and raised in the Bronx, clarinetist Don Byron has ideas to share that reflect upon many aspects common to folks all around the world. But he ties those thoughts together with a thread that weaves through America's urban centers where jazz evolved over the past century. Swinging with an all-star mainstream quartet, Byron paints pictures ...

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Dave Douglas: Convergence

Read "Dave Douglas: Convergence" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Even if you consider yourself only marginally knowledgeable about modern jazz, there remains virtually no valid excuse for not having heard of trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Over the past 5 years Douglas' recordings have appeared on numerous yearly “best of “ lists including those of the New York Times, the Village Voice and All About Jazz. His ...

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Nu Blaxploitation

Label: Nonesuch
Released: 1998

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Bug Music

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 1996
Track listing: The Dicty Glide; Frasquita Serenade; St. Louis Blues; Wondering Where; Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies; Charley's Prelude; Royal Garden Blues; Siberian Sleighride; The Penguin; The Quintet Plays Carmen; Powerhouse; Tobacco Auctioneer; War Dance for Wooden Indians; Cotton Club Stomp; Blue Bubbles; SNIBOR.


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