Don Byron
Born in the Bronx, New York, visionary Jazz clarinetist Don Byron has displayed a ravenous appetite for experimenting in an almost bewildering number of worlds. Playing with the jazz world's perceptions of race and culture has been an ongoing theme throughout Byron's work since he tumbled onto the scene with 1992's TUSKEEGEE EXPERIMENTS. The album was an instant sensation in avant-garde worlds and within the Knitting Factory scene, and propelled Byron to explore numerous styles from Latin jazz to hip-hop to klezmer. He teamed up with Jack DeJohnette and Jason Moran for 2004's IVEY-DIVEY, an acclaimed tribute to legendary saxophonist Lester Young.
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Albums
- (2007) Bug Music
- (2006) Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Walker
- (2005) Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz
- (2005) Tuskegee Experiments
- (2005) Music For Six Musicians
- (2004) Romance With The Unseen
- (2004) A Fine Line: Arias And Lieder
- (2004) You Are #6
- (1996) Bug Music
- (1993) ...Plays the Music of Mickey Katz
Top Tracks
- A Mural From Two Persepctives
- Powerhouse
- Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies
- Shotgun
- Soldier In The Rain
Related Artists
- Dave Douglas
- The Klezmatics
- The Andrew Sisters
- Art Shryer's Modern Jewish Orchestra
- Dave Tarras
- Israel J. Hochman's Jewish Orchestra
- Josef Solinski
- Joseph Moskowitz
- Kandel's Orchestra
- Mishka Tsiganoff
- Naftule Brandwein
- Naftule Brandwein's Orchester
- Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra
- Regine
- Zero Mostel & Chorus
- Eric Dolphy
- Marc Ribot
- Bill Frisell
- Abe Elenkrig's Yidishe Orchestra
- Abe Katzman's Bessarabian Orchestra
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