breath of life (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
This week we feature jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown and Rio Samba-ista Ana Costa, plus nine versions of Benny Golson's classic composition, "I Remember Clifford," featuring Art Blakey, George Cables, Ernestine Anderson, Don Byas & Bud Powell, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kalamu ya Salaam and Slide Hampton. R.I.P. Brownie.
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
The word of the week is “Back”. 1. Back Door Santa - Bon Jovi 2. Back Home Again in Indiana - Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, and Stan Getz 3. Back In Baby’s Arms - Patsy Cline 4. Back In Love Again - LTD 5. Back In The High Life - Steve Winwood 6. Back In The Saddle - Aerosmith 7. Back In [...]
Bemsha Swing (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
From the mid thirties, with the rise of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, to the death of Coltrane in 1967--a thirty year stretch more or less--is what I could call the golden age of the saxophone. Dominant swing era sax players, aside from Bean and Pres, include Ben Webster, Chu Berry, Johnny Hodges, and Benny Carter. Charlie Parker revolutionizes jazz and the 50s show a plethora of postbop players:...
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
I like Glasgow. And Glaswegians. And Sarti's Cafe (above) . Byas'd Opinion - named after the tune by Don Byas -is a jazz blog from Glasgow. And I like that too. Byas'd , aka Tom Shearer wrote this about Bobby Wellins' Glasgow Jazz Festival gig: The more I hear Bobby Wellins, the more convinced I am that he’s not just one of the top UK jazz musicians, but one of the best contemporary mainstream...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Don Byas was clearly a rising star when he walked away from fame, the first to hold the {{Lester Young = 11573}} chair in the {{Count Basie Band = 3676}}, before he was 30 years old. After two years with Basie he moved to New York City, where he played and recorded with the likes of {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} and {{Coleman Hawkins = 7500}}. Byas visited Europe in 1946 with the {{Don Redman Band = 10605}}...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
BIRDLAND JULY SCHEDULE LEW TABACKIN and TOSHIKO AKIYOSHI QUARTET Wednesday-Saturday, July 1-4 @ 8:30 and 11pm Music Charges: $30, general seating; $40, premium seating Lew Tabackin is one of the few jazz musicians who maintains a dual musical personality. As a tenor saxophonist, he is a hard-driving, tough-toned player reminiscent of Sonny Rollins or Don Byas. But as a flutist, he can also sound like...
Vedasri (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
"Mighty Long Way" - Alvin Queen (Justin Time Records)St. Joseph News-Press... Hub toned trumpet, Queen's drum talk masterfully conjures Art Blakey's thunder, Max Roach's improvisational architecture, and Elvin Jones' ancestral ...and more » http://vedasri.com/?q=max+roach
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 04/26/2009
Standard Coltrane Prestige PRS-31221, £9.78 ****
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
By the time Billy Taylor was 29 years old, he had already had a lifetime of jazz experience. By the close of the 1940s, the pianist had played with Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Big Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole, Stuff Smith and many other jazz giants. He also had been mentored by Jo Jones and Art Tatum. Though his piano style would evolve in the early 1950s and beyond, Billy's technical prowess...
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 01/31/2009
A gunslinger of a different sort — Don Byas Savoy Records “Years ago the game was vicious, cutthroat. Can you imagine Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Don Byas, and Ben Webster on the same little jam session? And guess who won the fight? That’s what it was–a saxophone duel. Don Byas walked off with everything.” [...]
Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Looking at the stats and inside info regarding readers of this blog (as I can do, as a contributor), I’ve noticed that someone calling him/herself Byas’d Opinion has frequently looked in and linked to our stuff about jazz over the years. I presume his/her nom de plume is a reference to the great, underrated tenor sax player Don [...]
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Idrees & Jamila Sulieman “The Camel” Columbia Records (Scandinavia) 1964 Idrees Sulieman was an early bebop pioneer on trumpet. He was born Leonard Graham, and took up trumpet when his father could not afford to buy him a saxophone (he later played alto saxophone after moving to Europe). He began his professional career with the Carolina Cotton [...]
Phawker (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
As a young musician, Marshall Allen (b.1924) performed with pianist Art Simmons, Don Byas and James Moody before enrolling in the Paris Conservatory of Music. After relocating to Chicago, Allen became a pupil of Sun Ra, subsequently joining the his Arkestra in 1958 and leading Sun Ra’s formidable reed section for next 40 years (a [...]
Panta Rhei T (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Jazz in Paris - Don Byas - En ce temps-là
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/13/2007
Ita€(TM)s quite a stretch to call this CD the very best, since all of the music was recorded between 1946 and 1949. Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993) was one of the leaders of bebop but also forged an important and unshakable relationship between jazz and Afro-Cuban music that lasts to this day. His recording career spans more than five decades...
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