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	George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byron's fame rests not only on his writings, but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, allegations of incest and bisexuality and an eventual death from fever after he travelled to fight on the Greek side in the Greek War of Independence.
		Byron was born in London, the son of Captain John "Mad Jack" Byron and of John's second wife Lady Catherine Gordon, heiress of Gight, Aberdeenshire.
		Byron initially refused to have anything to do with Claire, and would only agree to remain in her presence with the Shelleys, who eventually persuaded Byron to accept and provide for Allegra, the child she bore him in January 1817.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Gordon_Byron,_6th_Baron_Byron (2459 words)

	Don Byron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don Byron (born November 8, 1958 in New York City) is a composer and jazz clarinet player.
		While Don Byron is for all intents and purposes considered a jazz musician, he is stylistically very adventurous, having recorded klezmer music, German lieder, cartoon music, a Jimi Hendrix song, and a track with rapper Biz Markie.
		Byron is a gifted performer on clarinet and (occasionally) saxophone, but on many of his albums subordinates his own playing to the exploration of a particular style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Byron (224 words)

	Byron's Biography: Don Juan and Byron's Existential Angst
		Byron's poetic idol was Pope (Bloom 1) and he felt that by attacking Pope, Byron's Romantic contemporaries "showed their neglect of the rules of propriety in verse, a neglect which carried over to the debasement of political and ethical ideas.
		Byron is especially sympathetic to Byron-as-Juan, and depicts him "not as the ruthless seducer but as the innocent seduced" (Bostetter 3).
		Don Juan is Byron in a nutshell: as he was and as he wished humanity to be; a disillusioned yet continually idealistic portrait of mankind.
	www.colostate.edu /Orgs/NieveRoja/issue5/byron.htm (2493 words)

	George Gordon, Lord Byron
		Byron sent copies to two of his friends, one of whom wrote back to say that he thought the poem To Mary was far too shocking to be read by the general public.
		Byron took Teresa, Countess Guicioli, as his mistress in 1819, and it was quite the scandal.
		Around this time, Byron and some of his school friends were staying in a former monastery, and they'd developed a habit (sorry) of dressing up as monks and drinking toasts from a monk's skull which they'd accidentally dug up.
	incompetech.com /authors/byron (1725 words)

	Don Byron: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Byron is an exceptional clarinetist from a technical perspective; he also possesses a profound imagination that best manifests itself in his multifarious compositions.
		Byron's composition "There Goes the Neighborhood" was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet [+] and premiered in London in 1994.
		Byron was born and raised in New York City, the son of a mailman who also occasionally played bass in calypso bands, and a mother who dabbled on piano.
	www.music.com /person/don_byron/1 (530 words)

	English 151-3; Byron's Don Juan notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This long, digressive satiric poem is a loose narrative held together only by the hero, Don Juan, and the narrator, Byron himself, who maintains a mocking, ironic relationship with the story.
		Byron claimed that he had no plot in mind as he wrote the poem, and he continued to add episodes as long as he lived, completing sixteen cantos before his death.
		Don Juan is the son of an aristocratic father and an intellectual mother.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/english/English151W-03/byron[donjuan].htm (1089 words)

	E.J.N. - DON BYRON
		Born and raised in the Bronx, Byron was exposed to a wide variety of music at home by his father, who played bass in calypso bands, and his mother, a pianist.
		Byron formalized his music education by studying classical clarinet with Joe Allard while playing and arranging salsa numbers for high school bands on the side.
		Don Byron has released a diverse array of recordings during the 1990s.
	www.ejn.it /mus/byron.htm (807 words)

	Don Byron: Ivey-Divey
		Byron has assembled a similarly talented trio for this recording, surrounding himself with pianist Jason Moran, who, like Byron, is able to take the traditions of jazz along with his own personal influences and meld them into performances that are inside the tradition while sounding fresh and contemporary, and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
		Byron’s playing on this disc is full of energy, driving where Young was often more laid back.
		Ivey-Divey is not only one of Don Byron’s best and most thoroughly realized recordings, it is undoubtedly one of the best jazz CD’s that will come down the pike in what is proving to be a fairly impressive year for the genre.
	www.jazzitude.com /byron_ivey.htm (775 words)

	Don Byron: You Are #6 - PopMatters Music Review
		Don Byron is the most ambitious jazz artist in the United States of America.
		This is Byron's Latin-jazz group, with Edsel Gomez on piano, Leo Traversa on bass, James Zollar on trumpet and flugelhorn, and anchored by the two stellar percussionists Milton Cardona and Ben Wittman.
		Byron works very nicely in the Latin idiom -- he's obviously got a love for the form, which is seen very nicely in the first track, Henry Mancini's "Theme from 'Hatari'".
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/byrondon-you.shtml (1089 words)

	Music: Points of View (The Boston Phoenix . 09-27-99)
		Last year, when clarinettist Don Byron was in Boston with his Bug Music repertory group to play the Regattabar, he ended one of his witty between-song monologues with an epigrammatic pronouncement that has stayed with me. "Remember," he said, "this music [jazz] always has a point of view.
		Similarly, Byron's silken improvisations on Lennon and McCartney's "I'll Follow the Sun" and his own "Basquiat" display an appreciation for the songwriting itself -- for the structure of the composition -- without boxing in Byron and the band.
		Byron's approach is more linear -- his long, leisurely lines roam comfortably around the clarinet's midrange as they poke here and there, picking their way into the upper registers like a rock climber up a cliff face.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-27-99/boston_music_2.html (713 words)

	Byron's Don Juan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Byron dedicates the poem to the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey; satirizes Southey and the other Lake Poets for their politics, pretentions and verse; and insults the Foreign Secretary, Castlereagh.
		Don Juan is born to Don Jose and Donna Inez; his education.
		Don Alfonso discovers his wife, Julia, and 16-year old Juan; Don Juan is sent traveling to escape the scandal.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/7086/donjuan.htm (305 words)

	OFFOFFOFF music DON BYRON AND EXISTENTIAL DRED band with Don Byron, Julie Patton
		The clarinet is not the only wonderful but unjustly neglected thing that Don Byron has dug up from jazz tradition and made new again.
		Byron and his Existential Dred band are playing a three-Monday stint at the Knitting Factory elaborating on last year's album "Nu Blaxpoitation," which featured the poet Sadiq and the rapper Bizmarkie interacting with a jazz quartet.
		Byron seems to have a gift for mining musical traditions, no matter how long forgotten, as well as borrowing from current culture and then weaving what he's found into something original.
	www.offoffoff.com /music/oct99/donbyron.php3 (518 words)

	Criticism: Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend. - Review - book reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend.
		Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend by Moyra Haslett.
		Moyra Haslett's Byron's Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend draws on speech-act theory and a broad definition of myth to argue that Byron's poem owes more to the historical myth of a legendary seducer than has been previously acknowledged.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_2_41/ai_56913415 (1333 words)

	CD Review of Don Byron - Romance With the Unseen on Blue Note @ jazzreview.com
		Such diversity can scare away the typical listener and all of this far-flung "concept" stuff tends to obscure the fact that Byron is still the most intriguing jazz clarinet player to emerge in the past 20 years.
		Instead of using tonal manipulations and other "outside" effects for sheer novelty, Byron's mercurial technique is more tempered and in tune with the mood dictated by each given piece.
		In many ways this one could be a breakthrough for Byron, who has always skirted the boundary between the mainstream and avant garde.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=1489 (348 words)

	clevescene.com \| \| Playback \| Don Byron \| 2000-12-21
		On the other hand, given Byron's ability and accomplishments, this can be viewed as a disappointing project.
		Byron's been all over the place, performing in contexts ranging from avant garde and retro jazz to klezmer, classical, and rap, and this versatility has generally impressed critics and fans.
		But Byron is frittering away his considerable ability by not concentrating on the development of an innovative approach.
	www.clevescene.com /issues/2000-12-21/playback2.html (380 words)

	Byron (Lord) Don Juan Summary
		One night Don Alfonso arrives to find Julia in bed with Antonia her maid, but he is suspicious and searches with his lackeys for her suspected male lover unsuccessfully.
		Byron comments on the necessity to secure the chastity of the women in these unhappy climes--that "wedlock and a padlock mean the same."
		At breakfast the next morning, Don Juan appears wan and worn as if he had combated two ghosts, and the Duchess "Seemed pale and shivered, as if she had kept / A vigil or dreamt rather more than slept." The poet does not say whether vice or virtue had triumphed during the night.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/lb_donjuan.html (2612 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Plays Music of Mickey... [CD] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Byron's interest in klezmer was hardly faddish when he recorded this 1993 date.
		Don Byron in his liner notes says that Mickey Katz (1909-1985) had a "unique and quirky musical vision", and this extremely entertaining CD is a terrific tribute to Katz and his versatility.
		Don Byron has really pulled off a wonderful tribute to Mickey Katz with the help of some of the most top level talent in klezmer music today.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005J1Z (1010 words)

	village voice > music > Don Byron; Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra's A Love Supreme by Francis Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But both Byron and Marsalis are tackling the problem of expanding the jazz repertoire beyond derivative "originals" and a handful of distressed standards, and Byron's more novel solution seems to me at least as valid as tweaking the canon—it all depends on the results.
		Even when Byron is comparing Earth, Wind & Fire to Schoenberg, as he did in introducing "Shining Star," his shows are more like mix tapes—a breezy assortment of stuff he enjoys and wants you to hear the way he does.
		Byron helped call attention to the boundless riffs and countermelodies behind the toasts and pilfered basslines.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0504,davis,60398,22.html (883 words)

	Don BYRON You are #6 : Jazz CD Reviews- January 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As with that album, Byron has turned to a relatively straight ahead jazz album in contrast to the rather eclectic, unfocussed (some might say schizophrenic) feel of his recent releases.
		The instrumentation is the same as on the 1995 album, with Byron on clarinets, Edsel Gomez on piano and Ben Whitman on drums surviving, joined here by James Zollar on trumpet and flugelhorn, Leo Traversa on bass and vocals, and Milton Cardona on congas, percussion and vocals.
		In contrast, "No Whine" is a slow paced and effective feature for Byron, and acts as a refreshing respite from the relentless rhythms all around it.
	www.musicweb-international.com /jazz/2002/Apr02/Byron.htm (398 words)

	Mailgate: it.arti.musica.recensioni: MUSICA: DON BYRON at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His 1993 release, Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz, has focused attention on the radical and humorous work of the long overlooked '50s klezmer bandlea der and parodist.
		Byron's latest recording, Music for Six Musicians, explores yet another aspect of his multifaceted creativity -- the Afro-Carib bean heritage of both his family and the Bronx neighborhood where he grew up.
		Byron has won the Down Beat Critics poll three consecutive years and was named "Hot Jazz Artist of the Year" in 1991 by Rolling Stone.
	mailgate.supereva.it /it/it.arti.musica.recensioni/msg00190.html (2933 words)

	Amazon.com: Nu Blaxploitation [EXPLICIT LYRICS]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Performance poet Sadiq was also on board for Byron's debut, and now, after four wide-ranging, pan-stylistic jazz recordings, Byron returns with Sadiq for a session that's part street theater, part satire, and many parts steamy post-bebop avant-funk jazz.
		Byron's clarinet plays an often secondary role to Sadiq's ruminations, and a phenomenally soulful guest appearance by Biz Markie.
		Byron nods to the past in many ways here, from dedicating the CD to early fl rock pioneers Mandrill to taking on seemingly textbook blaxploitation dialogue for lyrical material.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009EA8?v=glance (548 words)

	Apocrypha-- A New York Minute
		Byron, expecting this all along, knocks the chair sideways, landing him on his back and knocking Don off balance.
		Don throws out his arms to break the fall, ends up with an arm on either side of Byron's head.
		Byron grins and smears a generous portion of Vitashell onto Don's beak.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Coffeehouse/1369/apocrypha/nymin.html (1925 words)

	Music Genres Come Together for Concert at Library of Congress
		Byron will join a sextet of colleagues in performing music from his current album, A Fine Line: Arias and Lieder, a provocative mix of classical pieces such as Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" and works by such popular composers as Stephen Sondheim and Henry Mancini.
		Byron has also won widespread critical praise for his unique and far-reaching musical aesthetic, which embraces artists as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Marvin Gaye and Nirvana.
		The Don Byron concert and discussion are part of the Library's "I Hear America Singing" celebration, an ongoing series of concerts, commissions, recordings, and educational programs that explore the breadth and significance of music in America from Colonial days to the end of the 20th century.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2001/01-065.html (565 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Nu Blaxploitation - Don Byron & Existential Dred at Epinions.com
		In an era of specialization and categorization, Don Byron is somewhat of an anomaly.
		Byron leads his band through tracks which vary from pure spoken word to funk/rap to a cover of Hendrix's "If Six Were Nine." There is a sort of defiance that unifies the whole album.
		Byron doesn't just speak against racism; he speaks against any kind of narrow-minded thought, such as the categorization of music into neatly packaged labels for the expedition of sales.
	www.epinions.com /content_37797072516 (499 words)

	CD Review of Don Byron - Ivey-Divey on Blue Note @ jazzreview.com
		45-year old clarinetist and New York native Don Byron is one of those jazz artists who continually creates new forward-thinking and highly critically acclaimed music yet, for unknown reasons, goes largely overlooked by both the public and the mainstream jazz press.
		Byron, along with drummer Jack DeJohnette and extremely underappreciated pianist Jason Moran, team together to find the unexplored cracks in their selection of tunes, and exploit the findings to the max.
		When TIME Magazine wrote, “Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet—it just doesn’t begin to describe it,” you can trust them to have got it right.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=7659 (634 words)

	Jazzmatazz Review - Don Byron - A Fine Line
		Byron has had an eclectic career—he played clarinet in the Klezmer Conservatory Band in the late 1980s/early 1990s and was a sideman with many New York downtown musicians such as Uri Caine, Bill Frisell and Bobby Previte (many of whom also delight in mixing genres), as well as Anthony Braxton and David Murray.
		And like Byron, Caine is interested in mixing genres (see his takes on Mahler and Bach on the Winter and Winter label).
		Don Byron's beautiful album A Fine Line should add to the debate.
	home.att.net /~lankina/jazz/Reviews/R0103b.html (575 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Don Byron
		In addition to his importance as an improviser, Byron is also a significant composer, with a far-reaching intellect.
		Byron's playing is characterized by a pretty, streamlined tone, rhythmic suppleness and melodic inventiveness.
		I hope, however, that Byron doesn't devote excessive time to projects such as this, as his forte is creating, rather than re-creating, music.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.02.97/byron-9701.html (709 words)

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