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Don Byas

real name Carlos Wesley Byas

Don Byas is credited on 986 releases across 321 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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986

Credits

321

Albums

8

Decades active

50

In collections

Biography

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American jazz tenor saxophonist
Born October 21, 1912, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA, died August. 24, 1972, Amsterdam, Netherlands
From a musical family, he succeeded Lester Young in the orchestra of Count Basie in 1941 and played with bop musicians in small groups, although he considered himself a swing musician. For the last quarter century of his life, Byas was based in Europe initially settling in Paris before moving to the Netherlands. He died from lung cancer.

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Credited work

986 releases · 321 albums · active 1950–2025

  • Performance · 1,545
  • Other credits · 41

Studios: Minton's Playhouse · Jazzhus Montmartre · Schola Cantorum, Paris · Town Hall, New York

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