Don Byas “Perdido”
Don Byas was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1912. He was trained in classical music. He played the violin and later the clarinet. He played the alto sax through his teens. When he was about twenty he switched to playing the tenor.
Byas lived much of his life in Europe were he gained popularity and [...]
Don Byas “Moonlight in Vermont”
I remember going to a used record store with my father when I was ten. I’d been to many record stores before, but none were quite like this one. There were just so many records stuffed into a small unorganized space. I looked through boxes and boxes of record while my father talked and laughed [...]
