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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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