Parlour Session #1: Don Byas – Classic Jazz Saxophone Analysis

This session explores Don Byas's stylistic inheritance from Coleman Hawkins and Art Tatum that produced the improvisational logic of one of the most sophisticated tenor saxophone soloists, and argues that he founded the third school of tenor playing, just as he said he did. Watch the original on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEFmCiqMivA