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The Story of Sax Expat: Don Byas

The Story of Sax Expat: Don Byas

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Revered by his peers and bandleaders such as Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young among others…. Don Byas chose a decidedly different path, migrating to Europe to escape social conditions and to seek artistic freedom. Author Con Chapman joins hosts David C. Gross and Tomaso Semioli to discuss his Byas biography out now on University Press of Mississippi


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