Don Byas - Slam Stewart Duet Live 1945 ~ I Got Rhythm

Recorded: Concert "Town Hall" New York City, NY June 9,1945

Personnel:
Don Byas - Tenor Sax
"Slam" Stewart - Bass

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[Tomáš Mika]

Name a major jazz player of today that doesn't have total command of the changes.

[laughingtiger123]

Total comand of the changes... something sorely missing today.

[vova47]

Agreed!....(:))

[madbebopper]

Very true. I doubt we will ever catch up to what Don Byas was doing in the 40s because he invented it! He also passed just about everyone by and did things that nobody has done since in a harmonic sense and also as in terms of sound and technique on the tenor saxophone. Pure genius!!! (Like Tatum)

[vova47]

50 years?!!... More like 100, because we have not caught up to him yet...

[vova47]

Couldn't say it better myself!!

Absolute fact, Most people learn all the chords by name in school but have little knowledge of how to use them and connect them in any meaningful way..

[ziggysway]

My music teacher posted this vid for the students to listen to. Wow is all I can say.

[luksaxtenor]

What a bass solo... Amazing

[direngrey150]

After the first AABA chorus was that a horizontal improvisation? (the use of arpeggios made me assume...)

[madbebopper]

Don Byas is beyond compare. A real genius and a pioneer of improvisation in jazz. He plays with 110% total command and mastery of the instrument and his incredible conception went way beyond his contemporaries. Slam and Don are making history here. A drummer and pianist might have only gotten in the way. What incredible playing. I can't say enough about Don Byas. 50 years ahead of his time.

[5705Seahorse]

Pure genius!