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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelNonesuch / Elektra
EAN0075597935424
eBay Product ID (ePID)3972838
Product Key Features
Era1990s
Run Time3578 Sec
Release Year1995
FormatCD
InstrumentPiano, Clarinet, Drums
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenreJazz
TypeAlbum
StylePost-Bop, Latin Jazz
ArtistDon Byron
Release TitleMusic for Six Musicians
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
DistributionWarner Music/Cinram Logistics
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Reviews8 - Highly Recommended - "...Willfully impolitic jazzbo...with expansive notions of jazz's transitional potential, Byron...is a smart composer and highly emotional player with a complex personal vision...", "...Brilliantly structured, Byron's new album weaves its way into, around and out of its Latin foundation. While the clarinet may be a cornerstone of klezmer, it's an alien instrument in a Latin combo. So Byron uses that incongruity to his advantage...", "...the clarinetist's own distinct voice...emerges....it is his compositions that yield the greatest rewards; they are by turns funny, angry, tender, and tough, developing into abstract spaces only to tumble into an Afro-Cuban groove without missing a beat...", 4 Stars - Very Good - "...Byron's adventurous, spirited MUSIC FOR SIX MUSICIANS challenges assumptions about what Latin music could or should be...", 3 Stars - Good - "...Byron returns to the serious mindframe of his debut TUSKEEGEE EXPERIMENTS, coming up with the rather odd concept of using Latin American music as a base for stringent free improvisation. The serpentine coldness of the leader's complex clarinet is counter-balanced by a more passionate congas/cornet/piano axis..."