Jazz Articles about Don Byron

Don Byron New Gospel Quintet: Love, Peace, and Soul

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 10, 2012

È tornato Don Byron: camaleontico, indefinibile, capace come sempre di regalare nuovi significati alla parola “contaminazione," che mai come nel suo caso deve essere instanziata e spiegata. È possibile che da ingredienti più o meno eterogenei come jazz, soul, leider tedeschi, musica classica, klezmer, rock, folk, ragtime, e funk si possa perseguire un percorso artistico-intellettuale in grado di raccontare ed esplorare le possibilità del jazz entro ed oltre la sua definizione? A quanto pare sembra di sì, ed è stata ...

Don Byron: Music Wikipedia

by George Colligan
October 3, 2012

[ Editor's Note: The following interview is reprinted from George Colligan's blog, Jazztruth ]I got my Bachelor's in Music Ed and Trumpet from Peabody Conservatory. I got my Master's in Jazz from Queens College. But I did my real graduate work playing with clarinetist Don Byron. My first gigs with Byron were playing Stravinsky and Raymond Scott. We also played Duke Ellington, Earth Wind and Fire, Herb Alpert, Klezmer music, the music of Junior Walker, and we even ...

Don Byron and Uri Caine in Tel Aviv

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 1, 2007

Don Byron and Uri Caine Opera House Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, April 27, 2007

The careers of composer and clarinetist Don Byron and frequent collaborator and composer, pianist Uri Caine, are exceptionally versatile. Both are gifted with an encyclopedic knowledge of many genres, past, present and futuristic, and always keen to explore new possibilities. But in their duo concert in Tel Aviv they chose to focus throughout most of the ...

Don Byron: Moving Towards the Idiomatic

by Paul Olson
February 19, 2007

Don Byron is one the most familiar names in contemporary jazz music and by far the most prominent clarinetist of the last 20 years. Born in the Bronx--and proud of it--Byron was introduced to an eclectic world of music and culture at a very young age by his pianist mother and bass-playing father. His early years saw him studying classical clarinet, playing and doing arrangements in salsa bands, and eventually attending the New England Conservatory of Music under the aegis ...

Don Byron: Doing The Boomerang at Philadelphia's Painted Bride

by Edward Zucker
February 16, 2007

Don Byron Painted Bride Art Center Philadelphia, PA February 3, 2007

Don Byron's release Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Walker became a darling of the critics and made the best-of lists for 2006. The disc, a danceable, funk and R&B-filled party record, was Byron's homage to one of his favorite musicians, Junior Walker.

Byron and his band once again did right by Walker at the Painted Bride on this Saturday ...

Don Byron: Do The Boomerang: The Music Of Junior Walker

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 9, 2007

Through previous recordings in honor of Sly Stone, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Mancini and other influences on his highly individualized muse, Don Byron has demonstrated a great feeling for tributes. His sixth Blue Note release honors Autry DeWalt, who blew as “Junior Walker a string of saxophone/organ hurricanes that contributed mightily to the rock-soul wing of Motown Records at the label's peak.

Byron mostly matches Walker's tenor saxophone, exploring in “Mark Anthony Speaks the outer reaches of soul-jazz like ...

Don Byron: Do the Boomerang and A Ballad for Many

by Elliott Simon
October 8, 2006

Don Byron Do the Boomerang Blue Note 2006 Bang on a Can & Don Byron A Ballad for Many Cantaloupe Music 2006

Culture, both niche and mass appeal, clearly intrigue clarinetist/composer Don Byron and for several years he has used his pen and horn to examine it from his own perspective. With his ethnomusicological openness ...