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A Ballad for Many
Don Byron, Bang on a Can
A Ballad for Many
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Classical
 
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Don Byron and the Bang On A Can All-Stars occupy front-row positions in the interstices where jazz, world music, and avant garde art music meet. Put them together in this stimulating new album, A Ballad For Many, and you g...  more »

     
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All Artists: Don Byron, Bang on a Can
Title: A Ballad for Many
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cantaloupe
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 6/13/2006
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Classical
Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Bebop, Chamber Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 713746303624

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Don Byron and the Bang On A Can All-Stars occupy front-row positions in the interstices where jazz, world music, and avant garde art music meet. Put them together in this stimulating new album, A Ballad For Many, and you get a lively, genre-busting experience. All of the compositions are by Byron, including "Eugene," written as a live accompaniment to a silent episode of Ernie Kovacs' 1960s TV show. Its six sections feature tick-tock percussion, a Rachmaninoff-like cello solo, and a general "jazz-meets-cartoon music" feel. The other multi-section piece is Byron's music from The Red-Tailed Angels, a documentary film about World War II's famed Tuskegee fighter airmen. Its 9 evocative cues range from a brief cello solo to Ellingtonian tone painting to martial rhythms. The closing section features Byron soloing, a jazz clarinet flight in tribute to the brave fighter pilots who broke barriers in a Jim Crow society. Another highlight is Basquiat, a moving homage to the Haitian-American artist who won fame and died young. It has dazzling Byron solos that include piercing forays into the upper stratosphere where Basquiat dwelt--in Byron?s words, "a brother who knew high art things he wasn't supposed to know, and ended up in high places where he wasn't supposed to be." --Dan Davis

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BoaC & Don= Pure Magic!
Alessandro Mantega | Quartu S.E., Cagliari Italy | 08/02/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I wasn't very deep inside BoaC music. I bought this because of Don, and SURPRISE! Bang on a Can really swings hard.

I strongly recommend this album to all jazz & open minded music lovers.



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