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		Jaki Byard is the reason that I became a jazz pianist.
		Jaki will now kick Jeremy's butt in Blues in B." But it was so much fun.
		But, with Jaki, it was more like he was fluent in many languages, and, using himself as a filter, he had a wider variety of ways to impart his ideas and gestures.
	www.kahnman.com /byard.php (687 words)

	Solo Piano/Jaki Byard With Strings - Jaki Byard - Pandora Internet Radio
		That title implies that Byard is accompanied by a large string orchestra, but in fact, he leads a sextet that includes four string instruments (George Benson's guitar, Ray Nance's violin, Ron Carter's cello, and Richard Davis' bass) along with Byard's piano and Alan Dawson's drums.
		Byard is unpredictable in both settings, although Solo Piano is even more of a rollercoaster ride.
		Unaccompanied, Byard shows his appreciation of different eras of jazz piano and has fun with everything from stride and boogie woogie to modal post-bop, free jazz, and the avant-garde.
	www.pandora.com /music/album/4f80b7f92d8be22f (361 words)

	Jaki Byard - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: The late Jaki Byard was, arguably, the most versatile pianist in jazz, though he also played trumpet and was an excellent tenor saxophonist.
		Byard would, in a single solo concert, reveal his truly awesome mastery of the aforementioned styles, as well as R&B, stride, swing, funk, blues, honky tonk, and the extreme arpeggios of Art Tatum.
		Byard became an educator in the early '70s (after another collaboration with Mingus in 1970), teaching at Harvard, the Hart School of Music, and the New England Conservatory, and he recorded and performed intermittently the world over until his death from a gunshot wound in 1999.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/892/Jaki-Byard/30001153.html (301 words)

	Jazzmatazz Review - Jaki Byard - Sunshine of My Soul
		Sideman to Mingus and Maynard Ferguson, to Dolphy and Rahsaan Kirk and in his own Apollo Stompers band, Byard was described in his obituary as a jazz surrealist, and in at least one album promo as a musician comfortable in every genre from rag and stride to bop pianistry and the avant-garde.
		Byard’s magic is that, on any piece, his starting point can be one jazz style (a blues, a swing thing, a bop focus) and his transitions can slide gracefully (and that is the test) into free form while retaining a glimmer of the original melody and structure.
		Byard takes it all the way out on "Trendsition Zildjian;" plays a romantic on "Diane’s Melody;" strides through, swings and then embellishes W.C. Handy’s "St. Louis Blues" where he tinkles and then rolls lines of notes before he breaks the piece down into an off-kilter bluesified shadow of its original self.
	home.att.net /~lankina/jazz/Reviews/R0112f.html (265 words)

	Jaki Byard Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musicians Directory
		Jaki Byard, 76, a prolific pianist who once toured Europe with Charles Mingus, was killed by a single bullet that entered through his nose, the New York City Medical Examiner said on Friday.
		Byard was, early in his career, an integral part of a little-known jazz scene in Boston.
		Jaki Byard, one of the most creative and respected pianists in post-bop and avant-garde jazz, was found dead in his Queens, New York apartment in the evening of Feb. 11.
	elvispelvis.com /jakibyard.htm (1963 words)

	Jaki Byard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jaki (John) Byard (June 15, 1922 - February 11, 1999) was a jazz piano player and composer who also played trumpet and saxophones, among several other instruments.
		Byard recorded extensively with Charles Mingus in the periods 1962 to 1964 and 1970, touring Europe with him in 1964.
		Byard was killed in 1999 by a bullet wound to the head.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaki_Byard (209 words)

	Jaki Byard: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Byard is clearly in great spirits, except for having to shout down a noisy member of the audience during one number.
		Jaki Byard has to be considered one of the most underrated jazz pianists of all time.
		Jaki Byard is always an enjoyable pianist in any group, but he is at his best as a soloist.
	www.music.com /person/jaki_byard/1/discography/albums (1955 words)

	Jaki Byard: 1922-1999
		Although Jaki Byard came up during the Swing Era, his pianistic vocabulary displayed a fluency with the entire history of the jazz idiom from ragtime, blues, boogie woogie, and stride through swing, bebop, and hard bop to cool and free form.
		Jaki's first instrument was piano, which he began lessons on at the age of six, and it remained his principal one.
		At a club gig Jaki would occasionally rise to his feet from the piano bench and take a few choruses on the saxophone, continuing to play as he strolled among the delighted audience at their tables.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=919704344 (2045 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Jaki Byard
		In 1941, Byard moved from Worcester to Boston, but was soon drafted into the Army.
		Jaki played on Kirk's 1965 album Rip, Rig, and Panic, considered by many to be one of the Kirk's best recordings.
		Byard wasn't just a brilliant educator, he was an eager, life-long student.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/byard.html (758 words)

	village voice > music > by Gary Giddins
		Jaki died February 11, at 76, of a gunshot wound, in his home in Hollis, Queens, and rumors abound— an intruder, someone personally close, suicide.
		Jaki shrugged, and soon Junior was there every night, arriving in the middle of the set to wail "Getting To Know You" in an impossibly slow, cellolike arrangement.
		Jaki will be best remembered, however, for the astonishing recordings he cut between 1961 and 1972, mostly for Prestige, though he insisted his personal favorite was a solo date for Futura in Paris (1971, never released here); and for piloting Richard Davis and Alan Dawson in one of the greatest rhythm sections ever assembled.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/9910,giddins,4369,22.html (1283 words)

	BERKLEE \| Press Release
		Byard was scheduled to visit Berklee as an Artist-in-Residence for the week of February 22 and was to be the featured performer at the concert on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at the Berklee Performance Center.
		Byard played piano on Mingus' classic album "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady." He also recorded and toured with Maynard Ferguson and Eric Dolphy.
		In addition, Byard was a respected jazz composer and educator, beginning his teaching career at the New England Conservatory in 1969.
	www.berklee.edu /opi/1999/0218.html (328 words)

	New Music reBlog: Influence and Obscurity... Jason Moran... Jaki Byard... Andrew Hill... Cecil Taylor... Thelonious ...
		Monk and Byard in particular have that sense of historical awareness in their work – odd refractions of stride and swing and more earthy styles in Monk especially.
		I don't have any Jaki Byard solo to hand (or any Muhal Richard Abrams apart from a big band session) – but do have several albums on which he played as sideman.
		Byard played with Eric Dolphy on some sessions – including 'Far Cry,' from which I have selected 'Miss Anne.' On the edge of bop still – the first tracks on the album are dedicated to Charlie Parker - before Dolphy really took it out.
	netnewmusic.net /reblog/archives/2006/10/influence_and_o.html (1503 words)

	CD Review of Jaki Byard - On the Spot on OJC Records @ jazzreview.com
		Jaki Byard (piano, alto sax); Jimmy Owens (trumpet, flugelhorn, tambourine); Paul Chambers or George Tucker (bass); Billy Higgins or Alan Dawson (drums).
		Jaki Byard was an encyclopedia unto himself; in a French concert it's said he went "from James P. Johnson to Cecil Taylor." You hear that in his albums, even in the same song; with Mingus he would take explosions and follow them with classical beauty.
		Byard went to) starts sedate, a gentle horn as Jaki steps up, in lines of irregular length.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=614 (674 words)

	Gallery of Jaki Byard photos
		If you have photos of Jaki that are appropriate for this section, please contact us at info@jakibyard.org.
		Many of these photos are scans of prints from Jaki's own archives, lovingly gathered by his family.
		In memory of Jaki Byard: family man, musician, composer, teacher, and friend.
	www.jakibyard.org /gallery (109 words)

	Jaki Byard
		Jaki Byard, pianist, composer, saxophonist, trombonist, bassist, guitarist, drummer, and educator, was as diverse in his styles and experience as in his instrumental abilities.
		Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA on June 15 of 1922, he was a dominant figure in the Boston jazz scene of the 1940s.
		Few pianists are comfortable in as many styles and genres as Jaki was, and even fewer can put their personality into as many styles as Jaki Byard did.
	www.jakibyard.org (213 words)

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		32 Jazz remembers Jaki Byard with the re-release of his 1978 Muse album, Family Man. For those who know Byard best as a sideman with Charles Mingus or Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the range he displays here as a player will be no surprise.
		Like Kirk, Byard was on intimate terms with the entire sweep of jazz styles, as capable of blowing a New Orleans stomp as an atonal free frenzy, and very capable at each point and almost anything in between.
		Five of the Byard originals are from his "Family Suite," a series of musical portraits of his relations.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-march00/reviews/review_jaki_byard.html (256 words)

	Challenge Records International
		Since Christophe was in close contact with Jaki Byard - he studied with Byard for four years in New York - the musicians decided to share some interesting inside details about the tunes.These are revealed in the booklet.
		The Byard material was challenging,powerful and above all,fun to play.The mission of the project was to introduce this great music to a larger audience,for so few people have ever heard it.
		All 8 songs on the album are written by Jaki Byard except one,which is written by Pierre Christophe.
	www.challenge.nl /index.php?id=75120 (246 words)

	Jaki Byard & Prince Lasha : Features : One Final Note
		These two discs by Prince Lasha's quintet and Jaki Byard definitely fall into this category—long sought-after by today's jazz aficionados, their first appearance on CD is a major jazz event.
		The most fully freeblown piece on the record, it's the only moment where Byard's inexperience as a free player shows—he's a whirling dervish behind the keyboard to be sure, but the lack of thematic development becomes slightly tiresome after eleven minutes have come and gone.
		Although their label is really the only thing these two recordings have in common, their historical importance separates them from the mundane pack of reissues and repackagings that clog the new release bins at the record store.
	www.onefinalnote.com /features/2002/prestige (535 words)

	Jaki Byard with Roland Kirk / The Jaki Byard Experience [Cardboard Sleeve] [Limited Release]
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		Cardboard sleeve reissue from Jaki Byard and part of the third and final wave of the "Jazz 18ban" series featuring digital K2 remastering and faithfully recreated replica cardboard sleeve jacket designs.
		Part of the third wave three-album Jaki Byard cardboard sleeve reissue series featuring the albums "Hi Fy," "Sunshine of my Soul," and "The Jaki Byard Experience" (with Roland Kirk).
	www.cdjapan.co.jp /detailview.html?KEY=VICJ-41741 (200 words)

	Jaki Byard : Here's Jaki - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		With 24-year-old, metro Detroit bassist Ron Carter and fellow Bostonian, veteran drummer Roy Haynes, pianist Byard has formed a partnership on this recording that effectively grasps modern jazz.
		Penning five of these not-so-easy pieces, Byard digs into a 5/4 modal calypso, rippling off minor incursions or stair-step delicate lines for the long jam "Cinco y Quatro." Part of an incomplete suite, "Mellow Septet" is an easy swinging blues much like "Freddie Freeloader," with Byard rambling in mid-section.
		Shackles tossed aside, they can get it done like few other trios, and were they a working band during the next few decades, it would have been glorious to hear where they would take this format.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,59732,00.html (401 words)

	CD Review of Jaki Byard Quartet with Joe Farrell - The Last From Lennie's on Prestige @ jazzreview.com
		While not an innovator, the late Jaki Byard was indeed among the finest (and versatile) jazz pianists ever — he contributed to incandescent recordings by Booker Ervin, Charles Mingus, the Al Cohn/Zoot Sims quintet and R. Roland Kirk.
		One of the aspects of his playing that set him apart from others in the 1960s & 70s was his penchant for reaching back and embracing pre-bebop jazz for inspiration, even while soaring with cutting-edge players.
		While fans of Byard and Farrell will no doubt need to obtain this, jazz aficionados who have each fellow “pegged” as a certain kind of “mainstream” stylist will likely be surprised by the rippling, unpredictable energy generated herein.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=7635 (245 words)

	D.D. Jackson
		Even these things you just accepted because Fred was always so fully Fred: without a doubt one of the greatest bass players in jazz, but also one of the most unforgettable characters I will likely ever meet, someone you couldn't help but love.
		Jaki Byard was my first jazz teacher, and I studied with him when I did my Masters Degree in Jazz at the Manhattan School of Music, from 1989 thru May of 91.
		I was originally assigned to another teacher there, but before my first day when I found out Jaki had recently been added to the faculty and after doing a little research, I knew I had to work with him.
	www.ddjackson.com /news.aspx?ID=1837 (802 words)

	Slipcue.com Obituary Listings
		Byard was an extremely important figure in modern jazz for several reasons.
		It made him the perfect accompanist for two of the more well versed musicians of modern jazz, Charles Mingus and Rahasaan Roland Kirk, and Byard was one of the few jazz pianists capable of keeping up not just with their stylistic references, but also with their humor and volcanic intensity.
		Byard-Mitchell, he is survived by another daughter, Diane, and a son, Gerald, all of Queens, four grandsons and six great- grandsons.
	www.slipcue.com /obits/01/obits05.html (2006 words)

	Jaki Byard - Foolin' Myself \| internet radio on icebergradio.com
		This studio date features the rhythm section from Jaki Byard's big band The Apollo Stompers, with bassist Ralph Hamperian and drummer Richard Allen.
		Other than Byard's solo of the title track and the bassist's rather dull "Breath," this CD is devoted to Byard originals.
		While the pianist's techinque is impressive as always, his songs are not as strong as on many of his other releases, with the exception of his dreamy solo on "Oslo to Kristiansund to Malmo." ~ Ken Dryden, Read More...
	www.icebergradio.com /album/161323 (121 words)

	Jaki Byard – Music at Last.fm
		Jaki (John) Byard (June 15, 1922 – February 11, 1999) was a jazz piano player and composer who also played trumpet and saxophones, among several other instruments.
		He was noteworthy for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and stride to free jazz.
		Byard began playing professionally at the age of 15....
	www.last.fm /music/Jaki+Byard (756 words)

	Jaki Byard Experience CD
		Personnel: Jaki Byard (piano); Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone, clarinet, whistle, manzello, kirkbam); Richard Davis (bass); Alan Dawson (drums).
		Davis is outstanding, and who better for Byard than a man whose understanding and appreciation for the history of jazz matches his own: Kirk.
		This is the only review I have ever written, because this is an album that is both great and not widely known; it deserves wider currency, and mayhaps you deserve to hear it.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1036939/a/Jaki+Byard+Experience.htm (157 words)

	Jeff Gardner Home Page
		After classical piano lessons with Ruth Schontal and Ivan Tcherepnin he studied jazz with Jaki Byard, Charles Banacos, Don Friedman, and John Lewis, and harmony with Nadia Boulanger.
		Il a étudié le piano classique avec Ruth Shöntal et Ivan Tcherepnin, le piano jazz avec Hall Overton, Jaki Byard, John Lewis, Don Friedman, et Charles Banacos, et l'harmonie avec Nadia Boulanger.
		Parmi les points forts de sa carrière européenne on peut citer le quatuor de pianos avec Jaki Byard, Martial Solal, et Paul Bley au Havre en 1984 et un trio avec J.F. Jenny-Clark et Barry Altschul.
	interjazz.com /jeffgardner (2521 words)

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