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DK Dyson
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Friday Aug 14, 2009 (9–10:45pm)
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- Price
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$18 at the door / $15 in advance
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Come on by and get sanctified in the deep waters of DK Dyson's Brooklyn soul. Having performed with artists such as Jeff Buckley, Vernon Reid, and The Jazz Passengers, DK was also the singer for the noted NYC-based Eye and I. With sensuous seasonings from Africa, Brazil and Brownsville, Brooklyn, she'll no doubt sing you into funky submission.
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For almost two decades, Don Byron has been a singular voice in an astounding range of musical contexts, exploring widely divergent traditions while continually striving for what he calls "a sound above genre." As clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and social critic, he redefines every genre of music he plays, be it classical, salsa, hip-hop, funk, rhythm & blues, klezmer, or any jazz style from swing and bop to cutting-edge downtown improvisation. 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 Beatin 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, Australia, and on New York’s Broadway.
The Trustees of the American Academy in Rome awarded the 2009 The Samuel Barber Rome Prize for Composition to Don Byron, Composer, Clarinetist/Saxophonist, and Visiting Associate Professor, University at Albany State University of New York.
Don Byron's composition 7 Etudes for Solo Piano was nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in music. The pieces, a deft set of studies that display rhythmic inventiveness and irresistible energy, charm and wit, were premiered on March 15, 2008 at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. Co-commissioned by pianist Lisa Moore and Meet the Composer, 7 Etudes are the center pieces of HIMM, Moore's upcoming solo album featuring music by Don Byron, to be released this summer on Cantaloupe Music.
