Don Byron

Throughout his career, composer and clarinetist Don Byron has blended jazz with styles ranging from klezmer to rap to German lieder. His latest project looks to gospel – specifically icons Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Thomas A. Dorsey (known as the “father of black gospel music”) - for inspiration. Don Byron and his New Gospel Quintet join us to play a bit of their debut album, “Love, Peace, and Soul,” live in our studio.

The jazz clarinetist Don Byron has an extraordinary musical range. He's put out albums of modern jazz, 1930's swing, rap, and Jewish dance music. His new album, Do The Boomerang, is good old fashion rockin' blues. Byron tells Kurt about his always-changing music, and explains how he ...

Word Battles
Week of Friday, January 10 2003


It's words, words, words... words that won't come out, words officially and unofficially chosen as Word of the Year, words of wisdom from a teacher trying to explain war, and the unreliable words of Alice Furlaud, ...