Don Byas (comic book + 2 CD)

CD1 NEW YORK (1941?1946)

1 HARVARD BLUES 3?22
2 ROYAL GARDEN BLUES 3?10
3 SUGAR BLUES 2?59
4 WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH MY HEART 3?01
5 THESE FOOLISH THINGS 2?56
6 GOOD BAIT 3?00
7 SHOULD I? 2?35
8 JAMBOREE JUMP 2?50
9 INDIANA 5?17
10 I GOT RHYTHM 5?10
11 OUT OF NOWHERE 3?17
12 LITTLE WHITE LIES 2?47
13 DEEP PURPLE 3?04
14 THREE O?CLOCK IN THE MORNING 2?59
15 STARDUST 3?05
16 BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL 3?14
17 WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS 2?59
18 CANDY 3?18
19 BYAS A DRINK 2?46
20 GONE WITH THE WIND 4?37

CD2 PARIS (1947?1954)

1 BODY AND SOUL 3?03
2 I SURRENDER DEAR 3?17
3 THESE FOOLISH THINGS 3?05
4 AIN?T MISBEHAVIN? 2?51
5 DYNAMO A 3?28
6 STORMY WEATHER 3?12
7 YESTERDAYS 2?31
8 GLORIA 3?10
9 THE MAN I LOVE 2?43
10 NIGHT AND DAY 2?35
11 LAURA 4?15
12 OLD FOLKS 3?17
13 IF I HAD YOU 3?35
14 I CAN?T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE 2?50
15 BLUES FOR DON CARLOS 3?50
16 SWEET LORRAINE 3?35
17 APRIL IN PARIS 2?52
18 NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS 3?33
19 MARY?S WALTZ 3?03
20 BERYL BOOKER?S BYASED BLUES 4?53

Grand parmi les grands du saxophone ténor, Don Byas, Don Carlos pour les dames, fit se pâmer des générations de danseurs, en particulier par ses interprétations de Laura, thème du film homonyme d?Otto Preminger. Cependant, il était bien plus qu?une sonorité voluptueuse et langoureuse.
Byas comptait parmi les grands virtuoses du genre, un musicien ouvert à toutes les aventures, un pionnier sans en avoir l?air, adopté dès les années 40 par les jeunes loups du bebop et dont l?influence se fit sentir plus tard chez John Coltrane et ses disciples. Il est donc à redécouvrir d?urgence, nos deux CD, débordant de chefs-d??uvre, comptent bien aider à le faire mieux connaître.
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A great player among the tenor saxophone Greats, Don Byas, Don Carlos for the ladies, caused generations of dancers to swoon, particularly when he was playing Laura, the main theme from the Otto Preminger film of the same name. He was much more than a voluptuous, languorous sound, however; Don Byas was one of the great jazz virtuosos, a musician ready for any kind of adventure and a pioneering player although he didn?t show it. By the Forties, the rising stars of bebop had adopted him and his influence could be felt later among John Coltrane and his disciples. It is high time that Don Byas was rediscovered; these two CD?s are filled with masterpieces that will help people know him better.

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