Europe for the last 26 years of his life. Byas was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States. Both of Byas' parents were musicians. His mother played...
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such as Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, and Don Byas. Byas became the first tenor saxophone player to fully assimilate the new...
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Town Hall that included Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Erroll Garner, Don Byas, Charlie Parker, Max Roach and Sidney Catlett. As the artistic director...
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Lester Young with Nat King Cole, 1942 Lester Young with Count Basie, 1944 Don Byas with Slam Stewart, 1945 Bud Powell, 1947 Louis Armstrong, An Evening with...
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He traveled to Europe in 1946 leading an all-star band that included Don Byas, Tyree Glenn, and Billy Taylor. He appeared on Uptown Jubilee on the CBS...
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man, nothing like it. And guess who won the fight? ... Don Byas walked off with everything. Byas was one of the first tenor saxophonists to assimilate...
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her old songs with an orchestra, recorded an album with jazz saxophonist Don Byas 'Encontro' (1968), and recorded an album of American songs with Norrie...
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which also features performances by Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Don Byas. The line-up of Louis Armstrong's orchestra during a New York recording...
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Tonic Pres" refers to Lester Young; "From Bechet, Byas, and Fats" is a homage to Sidney Bechet, Don Byas, and Fats Waller; and "Once in a While" was inspired...
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Friends (MPS, 1966) With Don Byas Don Byas featuring Mary Lou Williams & Beryl Booker (Vogue, 1953) Memorial (Vogue, 1973) Don Byas (Inner City, 1980) With...
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Tex Beneke, Ben Webster, Vido Musso, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate, and Don Byas, and through them the later tenormen, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Flip...
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Portrait of Thelonious (1961) - Bud Powell Tribute To Cannonball (1961) - Don Byas & Bud Powell Discoveries (1955) - compiles alternate takes from Presenting...
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Benny Goodman 1937 880 Willie Lewis 1941 881 Duke Ellington 1944–45 882 Don Byas 1944–45 883 Gene Krupa 1940 Vol. 2 884 Buddy Johnson 1939–42 885 Wynonie...
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blues vocalist, with Don Byas Quartet 1945 "Why Did You Do That To Me" Hub 3003-B (HU 419B) as Little Sam, blues vocalist, with Don Byas Quartet 1951 "Hey...
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with Oran "Hot Lips" Page. Other recordings include the tenor sax player Don Byas. Beboppers "Dizzy" Gillespie and Thelonious Monk were regulars at the jam...
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Nite Out (Ensayo, 1969) With Ben Webster Ben Webster Meets Don Byas (MPS, 1968) with Don Byas Live at The Haarlemse Jazz Clib (Timeless, 1972) Ben Webster...
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4th movement ("Sprightly, not too fast") of his String Quartet No. 10 Don Byas recorded an arrangement of the tune, retitled "London-Donnie", originally...
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The Tribute to Cannonball session, which was recorded first, featured Don Byas and Cannonball Adderley on tenor and alto saxophone respectively, while...
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1963 Autumn Leaves (Bill Evans album), 1980 Autumn Leaves, an album by Don Byas Autumn Leaves (Nat Adderley album) "Autumn Leaves" (Daniel Kajmakoski song)...
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For Lovers and Thieves) Big Ben Time! (Fontana, 1967) Ben Webster Meets Don Byas (SABA, 1968) Big Sound (Polydor, 1969) Ben Webster at Ease (Ember, 1969)...
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was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004. The personnel included Don Byas, Milt Jackson, and Ray Brown. Parker’s recording of 28 March 1946, for...
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as a short, slow ballad on Brubeck's 1995 CD Young Lions & Old Tigers. Don Byas Quintet (recorded November 26, 1945, released by Savoy Records as catalog...
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Cannonball is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell and tenor saxophonist Don Byas, released on Columbia in March 1979, featuring a session recorded at the...
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Midnight at Minton's (category Don Byas albums)
Midnight at Minton's is an album by jazz musician Don Byas, first released in 1973. It is a live recording of a 1941 jam session at Minton's Playhouse...
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to Chicago", with Basie, and "Harvard Blues", with a saxophone solo by Don Byas. Rushing was born into a family with musical talent and accomplishments...
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Rare Chet Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond – Jazz Goes to College (1954) Don Byas – recorded as "You Came Along" on June 27, 1945 for Jamboree Vic Damone...
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Concert (1960) A Portrait of Thelonious (1961) A Tribute to Cannonball (and Don Byas, 1961) 'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note (1961) At the Golden Circle...
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Cole (1909–1981) Craig Ball (1909–1960) Doc Severinsen (1927–) Don Byas (1912–1972) Don Redman (1900–1964) Django Reinhardt (1910–1953) Duke Ellington...
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an instrumental by Biréli Lagrène, Bud Powell (1950), Clifford Brown, Don Byas, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Harry James, Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride...
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appeared on songs by Charlie Christian, Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, and Don Byas. Guy began incorporating Gillespie's influences into his playing, with...
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