Byron, Don (Personal Name)

Peterson, R. Ralph Peterson presents the fo'tet [SR] p1991: container (Don Byron)

New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Byron, Don(ald Egbert, Jr.); b. Nov. 8, 1958, New York; clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and leader)

African American National Biography, accessed July 06, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Byron, Don; jazz musician, clarinetist; born 08 December 1958 in New York, New York, United States; attended the New England Conservatory; played with Hankus Netsky's Klezmer Conservatory Band; moved from Boston to New York and became part of the city's avant-garde jazz scene (mid-1980s); recorded first CD as a leader of Tuskegee Experiments, created a stir (1991); served as the artistic director of jazz at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1996-1999); artist-in-residence at New York's Symphony Space (2000-2005); taught at several colleges including the State University of New York (Albany) (2005-2009) and MIT (2007-2008); had a one-year residency at the American Academy in Rome)