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Profile of Don Byron
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Don Byron |
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8th November 1958 |
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New York, New York, USA |
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Don Byron (born November 8, 1958 in New York City) is a composer and jazz clarinet player.
While Don Byron is for all intents and purposes considered a jazz musician, he is stylistically very adventurous, having recorded klezmer music, German lieder, cartoon music, a Jimi Hendrix song, and a track with rapper Biz Markie. Byron is a gifted performer on clarinet and (occasionally) saxophone, but on many of his albums subordinates his own playing to the exploration of a particular style. Byron is one of jazz's greatest practicing historians, and some of his most successful albums (such as Plays the Music of Mickey Katz, Bug Music and Ivey-Divey) have been recreations (in spirit, if not note-for-note) of forgotten moments in the history of popular music. Don Byron has been nominated for a Grammy award for his bass clarinet solo on "I Want to Be Happy" from Ivey-Divey.
Byron is a member of The Black Rock Coalition. He has recorded with Uri Caine, Vernon Reid, Bill Frisell, Joe Henry, and others.
Discography
- Tuskegee Experiments (1992)
- Plays the Music of Mickey Katz (1993)
- Music for Six Musicians (1995)
- No-Vibe Zone: Live at the Knitting Factory (1996)
- Bug Music (1996)
- Nu Blaxploitation (1998)
- Romance with the Unseen (1999)
- A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder (2000)
- You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians (2001)
- Ivey-Divey (2004)
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