Byas, Don: Don Byas Collection 1939-61
Byas, Don: Don Byas Collection 1939-61
Format: CD
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Artist: Byas, Don
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046310622
Genre: Jazz
Don Byas was one of the most highly-regarded tenor sax players of his generation - he had a distinctive sound and a technique that enabled him to swing with effortless smoothness, yet with the dexterity and dynamics that enabled him to bridge the musical divide between swing and bebop. Hailed as one of the most exciting and brilliant new tenor stars during the early '40s' he became ubiquitous in New York studios on sessions alongside the luminaries of the era, before visiting Europe with Don Redman and deciding to stay there. He became hugely popular with the large audience of jazz enthusiasts in France, where he performed and recorded for 15 years or more - his absence from the USA explains the lower profile his reputation enjoys alongside some of his exalted contemporaries. However, he was one of the great jazz stylists of the era, and this collection brings together examples of his work both with his own small groups and with other leaders' ensembles over more than two decades, and featuring performances by some of the big names of jazz with whom he played
Tracks:
1.1 Wee Bit of Swing
1.2 Wham Re Bop Boom Bam
1.3 Practice Makes Perfect
1.4 Something New
1.5 Sugar Blues
1.6 Breaks
1.7 On the Sunny Side of the Street
1.8 Dance of the Tambourine
1.9 Riffin' and Jivin'
1.10 1944 Stomp
1.11 Swing Street
1.12 These Foolish Things
1.13 Memories of You
1.14 That's the Blues
1.15 Salt Peanuts
1.16 Be-Bop
1.17 You Call It Madness
1.18 S.K. Blues, Pt. 2
1.19 Now's the Time
1.20 I Got Rhythm
1.21 Out of Nowhere
1.22 Harvard Blues
1.23 Slam-In Around
1.24 Laura
1.25 Melody in Swing
2.1 My Melancholy Baby
2.2 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
2.3 Candy
2.4 Sophisticated Lady
2.5 Gone with the Wind
2.6 Ol Man Rebop
2.7 Cherokee
2.8 September in the Rain
2.9 September Song
2.10 Gloria
2.11 Body and Soul
2.12 I Surrender, Dear
2.13 Walking Around
2.14 Stormy Weather
2.15 Yesterdays
2.16 Lover Man
2.17 Where or When
2.18 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
2.19 Them There Eyes
2.20 Lullaby of the Leaves
2.21 Indiana [Jazz Festival Du Cannes "Tenor Conclave"]
2.22 Jackie My Little Cat
