The Don Byas Collection: 1939-61

by Don Byas

Overview

The Don Byas Collection: 1939-61 is a hefty two-disc anthology that brings together tracks recorded by the influential jazz tenor saxophonist from throughout his career. Byas was a highly regarded musician in his day, with prodigious talents that bridged the gap between swing music and bebop. Here we get a cross section of his recordings, running the gamut from big-band to small-group jazz. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	03/11/2014
Label:	Acrobat Music
UPC:	0824046310622
Rank:	138968

Tracks

Disc 1

1. A Wee Bit of Swing
2. Wham Re Bop Boom Bam
3. Practice Makes Perfect
4. Something New
5. Sugar Blues
6. The Breaks
7. On the Sunny Side of the Street
8. Dance of the Tambourine
9. Riffin' and Jivin'
10. 1944 Stomp
11. Swing Street
12. These Foolish Things
13. Memories of You
14. That's the Blues
15. Salt Peanuts
16. Be-Bop
17. You Call It Madness
18. S.K. Blues, Pt. 2
19. Now's the Time
20. I Got Rhythm
21. Out of Nowhere
22. Harvard Blues
23. Slam-In Around
24. Laura
25. Melody in Swing

Disc 2

26. My Melancholy Baby
27. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
28. Candy
29. Sophisticated Lady
30. Gone with the Wind
31. Ol Man Rebop
32. Cherokee
33. September in the Rain
34. September Song
35. Gloria
36. Body and Soul
37. I Surrender, Dear
38. Walking Around
39. Stormy Weather
40. Yesterdays
41. Lover Man
42. Where or When
43. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
44. Them There Eyes
45. Lullaby of the Leaves
46. Indiana [Jazz Festival du Cannes "Tenor Conclave"]
47. Jackie My Little Cat

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Don Byas   Primary Artist,Sax (Alto),Sax (Tenor),Featured Artist
Count Basie & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Clyde Hart All Stars   Primary Artist
Don Byas Re-Boppers   Primary Artist
Esquire All American Award Winners   Primary Artist
Savoy Jam Party   Primary Artist
Timmie Rosenkranz   Primary Artist
The Barrelhouse Barons   Primary Artist
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet   Primary Artist
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Don Byas Quartet   Primary Artist
Don Byas All Stars   Primary Artist
Hot Lips Page   Primary Artist,Vocals,Trumpet,Mellophonium
Mary Lou Williams   Primary Artist,Piano
Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings   Primary Artist
Don Byas Quintet   Primary Artist
Bud Powell Quintet   Primary Artist
Cozy Cole & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Don Byas' All Star Quintet   Primary Artist
Johnny Guarnieri Quartet   Primary Artist
Hot Lips Page Swing Seven   Primary Artist
Coleman Hawkins & His Sax Ensemble   Primary Artist
Buck Ram All Stars   Primary Artist
Big Joe Turner   Primary Artist,Vocals
Bill Coleman   Primary Artist,Trumpet
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra   Primary Artist
Slam Stewart   Primary Artist,Bass
Andy Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy   Primary Artist
Count Basie & His All American Rhythm Section   Primary Artist
Tyree Glenn & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
John Collins   Guitar
Gerard Pochonet   Drums
Geo Daly   Vibraphone
Earl Thompson   Trumpet
Lucien Simoens   Bass
Buford Oliver   Drums
Inez Cavanaugh   Vocals
Clarence Trice   Trumpet
Jean Bouchety   Bass
Brick Fleagle   Guitar
Fred Radcliffe   Drums
Robert Scott   Trombone
Jean-Jacques Tilche   Guitar
Horsecollar Williams   Sax (Alto)
George Johnson   Sax (Alto)
Billy Hicks   Trumpet
Richie Frost   Drums
Roger Paraboschi   Drums
Jack "The Bear" Parker   Drums
John Levy   Bass
Butch Hammond   Sax (Alto)
Jacques "Popoff" Medvedko   Bass
Benny Harris   Trumpet
Earl Bostic   Sax (Alto)
Don Redman   Sax (Alto)
Tyree Glenn   Trombone,Vibraphone
Dicky Wells   Trombone
Hubert Rostaing   Clarinet
June Hawkins   Vocals
Jimmy Jones   Piano
Rex Stewart   Cornet
Oscar Pettiford   Bass
Al Hall   Bass
Al Killian   Trumpet
Billy Taylor, Sr.   Bass
Harry Carney   Sax (Baritone)
Harold "Doc" West   Drums
Pete Johnson's All Stars   Accompaniment
Benny Bennett   Drums
Sanford Gold   Piano
Armand Molinetti   Drums
John Harrington   Clarinet,Sax (Alto),Sax (Baritone)
Rudy Williams   Sax (Alto)
Harry Lawson   Trumpet
Eli Robinson   Trombone
Jimmy Hamilton   Sax (Tenor)
June Richmond   Vocals
Martial Solal   Piano
Pete Johnson   Piano
Ray Brown   Bass
Roy Eldridge   Trumpet
Billy Strayhorn   Piano
Maurice Vander   Piano
Max Roach   Drums
Red Norvo   Vibraphone
Remo Palmieri   Guitar
Milt Jackson   Vibraphone
Tiny Grimes   Guitar
Arvell Shaw   Bass
Johnny Hodges   Sax (Alto)
Buck Ram   Director
Mike Bryan   Guitar
Al Haig   Piano
Al Lucas   Bass
Albert Ammons   Piano
Buddy Tate   Sax (Tenor)
Buck Clayton   Trumpet
Bud Powell   Piano
Buddy Banks   Bass
Georgie Auld   Sax (Alto)
Guy Lafitte   Sax (Tenor)
Harry "Sweets" Edison   Trumpet
Trummy Young   Trombone
Jack Washington   Sax (Alto),Sax (Baritone)
Marcel Bianchi   Guitar
Earl Miller   Sax (Alto)
Ed Lewis   Trumpet
Barney Wilen   Sax (Tenor)
Cozy Cole   Drums
Count Basie   Piano
Jo Jones   Drums
Ben Thigpen   Drums
Eddie Safranski   Bass
Freddie Green   Guitar
Earl Warren   Vocals,Sax (Alto)
Shad Collins   Trumpet
Clyde Hart   Piano,Celeste
Dizzy Gillespie   Vocals,Trumpet
Ernie Caceres   Sax (Baritone)
Frankie Newton   Trumpet
Vic Dickenson   Trombone
Fred Robinson   Vocals,Trombone
Charlie Shavers   Trumpet
Russell Procope   Sax (Alto)
Walter Page   Bass
Floyd Smith   Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
Ted Donnelly   Trombone
Jean-Pierre Sasson   Guitar
Leo Guarnieri   Bass
Franklin Skeete   Bass
Booker Collins   Bass
Leonard Ware   Guitar
Ted Sturgis   Bass
Denzil Best   Drums
Dick Wilson   Sax (Tenor)
Pha Terrell   Vocals
Pierre Michelot   Bass
Bill DeArango   Guitar
Idrees Sulieman   Trumpet
Billie Holiday   Vocals
Kenny Clarke   Drums
Erroll Garner   Piano
Joe Thomas   Trumpet
Johnny Guarnieri   Piano
Charlie Parker   Sax (Alto)
John Simmons   Bass
Leonard Gaskin   Bass
Specs Powell   Drums
Billy Kyle   Piano
Tab Smith   Sax (Alto),Sax (Soprano)
Teddy Brannon   Piano,Celeste
Teddy Wilson   Piano
Shelly Manne   Drums
Peanuts Holland   Vocals,Trumpet
Sonny Greer   Drums
Big Sid Catlett   Drums
Stan Getz   Sax (Tenor)
Bernard Peiffer   Piano
Billy Taylor   Piano
Coleman Hawkins   Sax (Tenor)
J.C. Heard   Drums
Jacques Dieval   Piano
Hank D'Amico   Clarinet
Chubby Jackson   Bass
Christian Chevallier   Piano
Israel Crosby   Bass

Technical Credits

John Green   Composer
Hattie Young   Composer
Albert Gamse   Composer
Maybelle E. Watson   Composer
Don Roberts   Composer
George Norton   Composer
Paul Watts   Liner Notes
Roger Ramirez   Composer
Joseph Taps Miller   Composer
Al Kanner   Composer
Paul Gregory   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
David Raksin   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Holt Marvell   Composer
Hot Lips Page   Composer
Robert Sour   Composer
Mary Lou Williams   Arranger
James Sherman   Composer
Nilo Menendez   Composer
Harry Barris   Composer
Herbert Magidson   Composer
Harry Warren   Composer
Leo Mathisen   Arranger
Pierre Michelot   Composer
Jimmy Davis   Composer
Otto Harbach   Composer
James F. Hanley   Composer
Buck Ram   Arranger,Composer
Gladys Dubois   Composer
Mitchell Parish   Composer
William Tracey   Composer
Alex Kramer   Composer
Buck Clayton   Arranger
George Frazier   Composer
Gordon Clifford   Composer
Kurt Weill   Composer
Allie Wrubel   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Count Basie   Arranger
Joan Whitney   Composer
Claude Nougaro   Composer
Eddie Durham   Composer
Earl Warren   Arranger
Frank Eyton   Composer
Dizzy Gillespie   Composer
Ernie Burnett   Composer
Russ Columbo   Composer
Don Byas   Composer
Mack David   Composer
Doris Tauber   Composer
Floyd Wilson   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Joseph Young   Composer
Maxwell Anderson   Composer
Lucy Fletcher   Composer
Saunders King   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Jimmy Mundy   Arranger
Kenny Clarke   Composer
Ernest Gold   Composer
Eubie Blake   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Charlie Parker   Composer
Maceo Pinkard   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Tab Smith   Arranger,Composer
Ballard MacDonald   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Ray Noble   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Ted Koehler   Composer
Bernice Petkere   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Billy Moll   Composer
Al Dubin   Composer
Con Conrad   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Jack Strachey   Composer