General Interests
Music, Tennis, Politics, Football, religion, Origami, Garage Band, Pro Tools, Darryl Strawberry, Tom Seaver, Andrew Hacker, Chris Rock, Henry Mancini, Ernie Kovacs, Sid and Marty Kroft, Hanna Barbera, Chris Cherott, Wilhelm Reich, Joyce Carol Oates, Herbie Hancock, Dominoes, Santeria, Scrabble, Warner Cartoons, Film Music
Music
Stravinsky, Eddie Palmieri, Sly Stone, Kirk Franklin, Hezekiah Walker, Junior Walker, Mandrill, Thomas Dolby, Arnette Cobb, James Brown, Phoebe Snow, Aaron Copland, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Machito, Lester Young, Joe Henderson, Paul Bley, Papo Luca, Jose Fajardo, A Tribe Called Quest, Lightnin' Hopkins, Nat Cole, Fred Hammond, Raymond Scott
Movies
Chameleon Street, The 3rd man, the 7 Samurai, Monkey Business, Shaft, M, Shadow of a Doubt, The Accidental Tourist, Shadow of a Doubt, Bob Le Flambeur, Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song, Gentleman's Agreement
Television
6 Feet Under, Project Runway, Bargain Hunt, The Word Network, The Wilburn Bothers, Big Joe's Polka Show, yo Mamma, Next, The Mets, The Knicks, Peter Gunn, I Love Lucy, TD Jakes
Heroes
Igor Stravinsky, Eddie Palmieri, Joe Henderson, Jose Fajardo, Machito, Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Wayne Shorter, Thomas Dolby, JB, Sly, Bizmarkie, A Tribe Called Quest, TTC, John Corigliano, JS Bach, Robert Schumann, Erik Satie, Kirk Franklin, Gilbert Patterson, Hezekiah Walker, Eddie Harris, Marice Ravel, Aaron Copland, George Russell, Joe Allard, Gary Bartz, Twinkie Clark, Earth Wind &; Fire, Mandrill, Papo Luca, The Sugarhill Gang, Sam Musiker
Aretha Franklin singing Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" at the 1998 Grammys
This performance inspired Don's 2000 album A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder
Don playing after hours at the Hey Hey Club in Robert Altman's 1996 film Kansas City
Eddie Harris and Les McCann playing "Compared to What" as heard on Swiss Movement. This is Part One, for Part Two see below:
For over a decade, Don Byron has been a singular voice in a dizzying range of musical contexts, exploring widely divergent traditions while continually striving for what he calls "a sound above genre." As clarinetist, composer, arranger, and social critic, he redefines every genre of music he plays, be it classical, salsa, hip-hop, funk, klezmer, or any jazz style from swing and bop to cutting-edge downtown improvisation. He has been consistently voted best clarinetist by critics and readers alike in leading international music journals since being named Jazz Artist of the Year by Down Beat in 1992. Acclaimed as much for his restless creativity as for his unsurpassed virtuosity as a player, Byron has presented a multitude of projects at major music festivals around the world, including recent performances in Vienna, San Francisco, Hong Kong, London, Monterey, New Zealand, and on New York's Broadway.
featuring:
Don Byron, tenor saxophone
Dean Bowman, vocals
David Gilmore, guitar
George Colligan, Hammond B-3 organ
Brad Jones, bass
Rodney Holmes, drums
and special guest Chris Thomas King on vocals and guitar
"a smoking slab of greasy soul with a jazzman's sense of adventure." Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
"rough-and-ready, down-and-dirty rhythm and blues." John Kelman, All About Jazz
The combination of polymath composer-clarinetist Don Byron and the six post-minimalist virtuosos of the Bang on a Can All-Stars is a match made in musical heaven, and this collection of Byron's short, illustrative pieces is almost sinfully exciting. Most of the music is aggressively rhythmic but with a whimsical undercurrent, a blend of impulses that winds up shooting metallic sparks in all directions. "Eugene," a suite of jittery pieces written for a 1961 television broadcast by Ernie Kovacs, is pugnacious, sharp and always unpredictable like the Three Stooges if they were funny. Other squibs are as cartoonish as their titles ("Fyodorovich," "Blinky Blanky Blokoe"), but Byron also works a more traditional vein with the soundtrack for the documentary "The Red-Tailed Angels." And for sheer beauty there is "Basquiat," a luxuriant slow waltz that will make you melt. (Rating "Excellent")"
Nouvel Album: SKAFROBALKANIK JAZZ PROJECT Printemps 2010
Cocktail cuivré aux saveurs "SKAFROBALKANIK", à l image d une rencontre improbable entre les SKATALITES et EMIR KUSTURICA dans un bar a chicha d ISTANBUL avec FELA en fond sonore. A deguster sans moderation dès le Printemps 2010 En attendant ptite mise en bouche avec un medley de ce nouvel album sur: www.myspace.com/gagadilo contact tour:06 74 63 27 83 gagadilo@yahoo.fr
Dear colleague Don, how are you? Thanks for your friendship on myspace, happy Xmas and all the best for 2010. An embrace from Rome....Nino. Peace and love!!
Ca fait chaud au coeur, au ventre et aux pieds, c'est presque comme une amourette en tongs sur la plage ensoleillée, sauf que c'est à la rentrée, que ça groove plus et que c'est à la sortie du métro Croix de Chavaux ;-)
BIENVENUE AUX TERRES ARC EN CIEL MALIENNES !
L'ENSEMBLE ARCHIMUSIC Invite les chanteuses Mama Draba et Aminata Kanté, les percussionnistes Issakha Sow et Bacary Touré Pour une série de 8 concerts du 3 au 13 septembre 2009 à Montreuil (93)
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
Quand un quatuor classique s'enflamme sur un rythme à 5 temps, porté par un quartet de jazz et des tambours de l'Afrique et des Antilles, notre sale histoire commune liée par les chaînes de l'esclavage s'écrase devant l'évidence que l'humanité respire et gronde dans l'altérité.
I'm happy to announce my new cd MOONSTRUCK, a collaboration with Jan Bang, Arve Henriksen, Tilmann Dehnhard, Ulrike Haage, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Alejandro Govea Zappino, Jan Krause, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra a.o. You're welcome to enjoy, bb
lmao i know i have been ditching allot of classes for dentist app and doctors but sleep also, man i hope i get out of this term alive. what happened about ur Financial Aid thing? least i been making some side money though, filling out those surveys online, giving my opinions n stuff. it aint been doing too bad, bout an extra 200 bucks or so a week, and the work is pretty easy, just like answering questions and giving my opinions on different things. heh, i just finished one, and it was about what freakin toothpaste do i like to use, lol. anyways, you should try it, and lemme know how it does for yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
He e-mailed me back today & said he got it and opened it... guess he was just slackin on the response lol.
Sounds like a fun summer... put in a good word with your cousin for me too ;) ya never know haha state is the plan as of right now... kinda wanna stay in the area but we'll see what happens.
anyway, remember that new work i started doing online, those paid surveys? it's been doing awesome! i'm banking close to 400 a week now, just filling out questionnaires and surveys and stuff online, so friggin easy. anyway, check it out, you'll like it:
www. blingsurvey. com
anyways, hit me up, lets do something this weekend! D56651565
THANKS FOR ADD ... MY NEW FRIEND
GOOD MUSIC
