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Don Byron Quartet at South Jazz Club
Courtesy of Wendy Wolf | Posted on October 8, 2019
Where
South Jazz Club
600 North Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA
Map
(215) 600-0220
When
Sun, October 13, 2019
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Don Byron
clarinetAbout
An inspired eclectic, Byron has performed an array of musical styles with great success. Byron first attained a measure of notoriety for playing Klezmer, specifically the music of the late Mickey Katz. While the novelty of a black man playing Jewish music was enough to grab the attention of critics, it was Byron’s jazz-related work that ultimately made him a major figure. Byron is an exceptional clarinetist from a technical perspective; he also possesses a profound imagination that best manifests itself in his multifarious compositions. At heart, Byron is a conceptualist. Each succeeding album seems based on a different stylistic approach, from the free jazz/classical leanings of his first album, Tuskegee Experiments (Nonesuch, 1992), to the hip-hop/funk of Nu Blaxpoitation (Blue Note, 1998)...