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  Don Murray (clarinetist)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Don Murray (June 7, 1904 - June 2, 1929) was an early jazz clarinet and saxophone player.
Don Murray was born in Joliet, Illinois, and attended highschool in Chicago.
Ted Lewis said that Murray was the greatest clarinetist he ever had in his band-- high praise indeed since Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman had also been in Lewis's band.
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 Don Murray
Don Murray (1904 - 1929) was an early jazz clarinet and saxophone player.
Don Murray was born in Joliet, Illinois on June 7, 1904, and attended highschool in Chicago.
After an automobile accident, Don Murray died on June 2 1929 in Los Angeles, California.
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 Don Murray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don Murray has been the name of more than one person of note:
Don Murray (drummer) of the group The Turtles
Don Murray (writer) Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the Boston Herald
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 Don Murray (clarinetist) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Don Murray (June 7, 1904 - June 2, 1929) was an early (A genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles) jazz (A single-reed instrument with a straight tube) clarinet and (A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore) saxophone player.
Don Murray was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Joliet, Illinois) Joliet, Illinois, and attended highschool in (Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan) Chicago.
After an (4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine) automobile accident, Don Murray died in (Click link for more info and facts about Los Angeles, California) Los Angeles, California.
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 The Prize Winner - David Murray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Since the mid-70s, Murray has led his own groups, worked as a sideman, often toured abroad, and been extensively recorded (as leader close to 30 albums).
Murray's music is heavily influenced by gospel and blues impressions absorbed during his childhood.
Using to great effect harsh dissonance and leaps to the extremes of the tenor's register, he is a master of building contrasts and climaxes.
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 Music: All-inclusive (Nashville Scene . 09-21-98)
Saxophonists Steve Coleman and David Murray, clarinetist Don Byron, and the String Trio of New York are among a core group of jazz musicians who shun conventional wisdom in favor of provocative, original music.
Tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist David Murray keeps changing his musical surroundings; he has long since moved beyond the purely free style he championed in the '70s, when he moved from Los Angeles to New York, and is now comfortable in any context, from swing to traditional to avant garde.
Clarinetist Don Byron is a critical favorite and an outspoken renegade.
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 Clarinetist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Aage has been the bass clarinetist with the Boise Philharmonic since 1988, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony since 1998 and is on the adjunct faculty at Albertson College in Caldwell, Idaho.
Chavez is the principal clarinetist with The Bohemian Symphony Orchestra and assistant principal clarinetist with the Golden Gate Park Band.
Andrew Lamy Clarinetist Clarinetist Andrew Lamy has received critical acclaim throughout his career and was praised by the press for energetic performances, colorful tone and immaculate technique...
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 The Triple Door - DAVID MURRAY
Tenor saxophonist/bass clarinetist David Murray abides as a major player in jazz circles and beyond.
Murray’s boundless curiosity has expanded his horizons with adventures into Latin, big band, soul jazz, African and Caribbean musical worlds.
Appearing with David Murray in the Gwotet will be: Herve Samb (guitar), Jaribu Shahid (bass), Francois Ladrezeau and Klod Kiavue (gwo-ka drums, vocals), with a drummer to be announced later.
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 Timeless Records
Venuti fills in a few violin notes, and the talented Don Murray (fresh from the famous out-and-out jazz band the New Orleans Rhythm Kings) is easily identifiable from a few breaks on clarinet.
McKinney's Cotton Pickers were under the leadership of their talented reed player Don Redman who not only ran this band but was also paid by Jean Goldkette to rehearse his best white bands, the Number One band as well as the numbers two and three.
Since Don and the Cotton Pickers were in Chicago (and familiar with the tunes) they replaced the Goldkette.
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 DVD Booty - Don Murray Movies (57 - 64 of 67 DVDs)
Don Murray (actor) Don Murray (born Donald Patrick Murray on July 29, 1929, in Hollywood, Califo...
Don Murray Photography - Advertising, Corporate and Editorial...
Don Murray Don Murray has been the name of more than one person of note: Don Murray (clarinetist) (...
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 Murray Khouri, clarinettist, broadcaster, producer, teacher, festival director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Clarinetist, Murray Khouri is also a skilled producer and director as well as a teacher and a broadcaster.
Murray has taken clarinet performances into new territories: recitals in Esperance in Western Australia and Djakarta in Indonesia were, he believes, the first of their kind.
Murray is part of the newly formed ensemble Pacific Winds which made its debut in 2003.
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 American BigBands - Page 1 "N" Bands
At the turn of the XX century, there appeared a figure who was to have a great deal to do with the shaping of Hawaiian music, adapting the old to the new in a happily acceptable manner.
Don now resident in Hawaii, summoned his family, and began to composed some of Hawaii's most enduring songs, including "Little Brown Gal," "My Wahine and Me," "Do the Hula" and "When Hilo Hattie Does the Hula Hop." --mlp), Wally Lavek, Malcome Beelby, Giggie Royse (Ed.
He was a young commercial artist when he went there, but he found that he needed more than paints and inks to express his delight in the myriad beauties of Hawaii, and quite by accident turned to writing.
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 Jazzmatazz Review - Don Byron - A Fine Line
Some of his earlier albums explored his wide-ranging interests: Plays The Music of Mickey Katz explored Katz's post-WWII take on mixing klezmer, jazz and humor; Bug Music looked at early jazz from the 1920s/30s; and Nu Blaxploitation explored rap and funk.
There's been a growing interest recently, expressed both on recordings and in writing, on the influence and relationships of classical music, and African-american musics to tin pan alley, theatre songs, jazz and pop songs.
Don Byron's beautiful album A Fine Line should add to the debate.
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 Mailgate: it.arti.musica.recensioni: MUSICA: DON BYRON at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
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.
Trained as a classical clarinetist at the New England Conservatory of Music, Byron's prowess as an instrumentalist won him spots with renowned groups such as the Hamiet Bluiett Group and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
In 1978, he spent a year in Belgium concentrating his full efforts on composing music, and from there mo ved to New York City where the next ten years were spent in fruitful collaboration with some of the most creative talents of the downtown new music/jazz scene.
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 Don Byron: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
While the novelty of a fl 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.
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).
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 Don Murray: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Murray recorded with both players in several different settings.
A member of the legendary Adrian Rollini Orchestra in 1927, Murray also worked with Joe Venuti [+] (1927-28), Broadway theater orchestras and, during his last year, with Ted Lewis [+].
Murray, who never led his own record date, appeared in the Lewis film short Is Everybody Happy shortly before his premature death from head injuries apparently caused by his falling against a parked car in a drunken stupor.
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 Don Byron-Romance With The Unseen
on Byron 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, the year he startled the jazz world with the release of his widely acclaimed debut album, Tuskegee Experiments.
These diverse experiences fostered the clarinetist's affinity today for the music of a broad array of artists including Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Eddie Palmieri, Henry Threadgill, Joe Henderson, Raymond Scott, Nirvana and Bill Frisell.
Byron has not only almost single-handedly revived an instrument that was pronounced moribund with the end of the swing era-since Benny Goodman, how many other major clarinetists weren't merely moonlighting sax players?-he has also taken a scholarly approach to jazz without a hint of academic stuffiness.
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 sonomu: Don Byron
Don Byron 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.
Don Byron has released a diverse array of recordings during the 1990s.
His 1998 Blue Note debut Nu Blaxploitation is a wide-ranging musical meditation with his band Existential Dred that fulfilled its promise to be a Ogenre bending experienceO by featuring poet Sadiq Bey and rap icon Biz Markie in performances reminiscent of the spoken word pieces of Gil Scott-Heron, Amiri Baraka and Henry Rollins.
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 Don Murray - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Don Murray
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 Encyclopedia: Don Murray (clarinetist)
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 Don Byron | Biography
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.
Composing commissions include “Spin”, a duet for violin and piano premiered at the Library of Congress; “Red”, a big band suite premiered at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2002, and a new string quartet piece for Ethel.
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 Don Byron | Z95-3
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).
Byron moved from Boston back to New York in the mid-'80s, where he began playing with several of the city's more prominent jazz avant-gardists, including David Murray, Craig Harris, and Hamiet Bluiett.
A year after recording Tuskegee Experiments, Byron made Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz(Nonesuch), which put something of an end to his Klezmer career (at least in terms of recording).
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 St. Lawrence String Quartet Will Perform with Clarinetist Todd Palmer and Soprano Courtenay Budd at Williams Center ...
Palmer has also served as principal clarinetist of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Grand Teton Festival in Wyoming.
His first CD, Hermit Songs, was released in 1995 by Koch International Classics and was praised by Fanfare and American Record Guide for “remarkable music-making” and as “extraordinary in its range and emotional depth.” Palmer’s CD of Mozart and Tchaikovsky was also featured on the cover of the February 2001 issue of BBC Music Magazine.
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 Forum Archives
Bix and A.D.(H)D. Is Don Murray the Young Man to the Left of Bix in the Bix and the Rhythm Jugglers Photograph?
Posted on May 10 2000, 08:24 PM Is Don Murray the Young Man to the Left of Bix in the Bix and the Rhythm
Murray is a lot heavier and his hairline has receded quite a bit.
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 David Murray Home Page - Discography/Sessionography
This site is devoted to the recorded output of David Murray and demonstates both his extensive and varied
I first saw David Murray in concert when he appeared in my home town of Brisbane, Australia in 1991 with the World Saxophone Quartet.
The Jazz Clarinet Homepage maintained by Michael Cassara is the internet's largest resource of information on the clarinet and its place in jazz music.
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 Don Murray - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Don Murray - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
A promising clarinetist, Don Murray's early death (five days short of his 25th birthday) means that he will be forever associated with the 1920s and the white jazz musicians of the era.
Murray's brief career found him playing with some of the major jazzmen of the time.
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 Press release for Effusion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Group members are: former Don Pullen and Sting drummer J.T. Lewis, Senegalese percussion master Abdou Mboup, current Herbie Hancock bassist Kenny Davis and exciting newcomer Christian Howes on electric violin.
David Murray, in the Village Voice, hailed the 31-year old Jackson as "the most innovative musician of his generation".
And as sideman, Jackson has been first call pianist for such innovators as David Murray, Craig Harris, Andrew Cyrille, Carlos Ward and Dewey Redman, performing across Europe, North America, Japan and the Caribbean and appearing on numerous albums over the past several years.
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 Jazz Police - Don Byron
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.
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, most recently in Vienna, San Francisco, Hong Kong, London, New York, and Monterey.
www.jazzpolice.com /content/view/1385/2   (499 words)

  
 Home Fresh : Article 'Fifty Million Frenchmen'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Victor Schertzinger "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting "Mean To Me" w.
Don Redman and John Nesbitt "Miss You" w.m.
Ray Noble and Alan Murray "I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart" Fisher, Unger, Stern "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" w.
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 Gwotet by David Murray (Jazz) / Masters, Gwo-Ka CD
David Murray (Jazz)/Masters: David Murray (tenor saxophone); Christian Laviso (vocals, guitar); Klod Kiavue (vocals, drums); Francois Ladrezeau (vocals, drum); Herve Samb (guitar); Angel Ballester Veliz (flute, alto saxophone); Moises Marquez Leyva (baritone saxophone); Alexander Brown, Carlos Sonduy Dimet, Elpidio Chappotin Delgado (trumpet); Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (trombone); Jaribu Shahid (double bass, bass guitar); Hamid Drake (drums).
Although this is not a 3 cd box set as I thought it was.
I was not disappointed, David Murray is always a couple of steps ahead.
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