Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 9615 6501
https://isni.org/isni/0000000096156501
Name: 
Byard, Jacky
Byard, Jaki
Byard, John A
Byard, John A. (Jr)
Byard, John A. (jun)
Byard, John Arthur
Jaki Byard
Dates: 
1922-1999
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
composer
creator
instrumentalist
performer
Related identities: 
Byard, Jackie (pseudonym; other identity, same person)
Byard, Jacky (pseudonym; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
Abene, Michael (co-performer)
Carter, Jack (co-performer)
Carter, Ron
Catherine, Philip (co-performer)
Charles Mingus Sextet (isRelatedTo)
Charlie Mariano Quintet (isMemberOf)
Chase, Bill (co-performer)
Childers, Buddy (co-performer)
Ciavardone, Joe (co-performer)
Cuber, Ronnie (co-performer)
Dauner, Wolfgang (co-performer)
Dawson, Alan (co-performer)
Dolphy, Eric
Dunlop, Frankie (co-performer)
Ericson, Rolf (co-performer)
Farrell, Joe (co-performer)
Ferguson, Maynard (co-performer)
Goykovich, Dusko (co-performer)
Hall, Harry (co-performer)
Hampton, Slide (co-performer)
Harmonia mundi France
Haroutunian, Varty (co-performer)
Hartt School of Music (isAffiliatedWith)
Haynes, Roy
Inzalaco, Tony (co-performer)
Jaki Byard and the Apollo stompers
Jaki Byard and the Apollo stompers (see also from)
Jaki Byard Quartet (isMemberOf)
Jones, Rufus (co-performer)
Jordan, Clifford (1931-1993)
Kiefer, Rick (co-performer)
Lee, John (co-performer)
Littman, Peter (co-performer)
Maiden, Willie (co-performer)
Mariano, Charlie (co-performer)
Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra (isMemberOf)
Maynard Ferguson Big Band (isAffiliatedWith)
Miller, Dan (co-performer)
Milliman, Linc (co-performer)
Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)
Morgan, Lanny (co-performer)
Neves, John (co-performer)
Nightswim (co-performer)
Pavone, Nat (co-performer)
Pomeroy, Herb (co-performer)
Richmond, Dannie (1935-1988)
Roane, Don (co-performer)
Rowser, Jimmy (co-performer)
Rupp, Kenny (co-performer)
Santisi, Ray (co-performer)
Sebesky, Don (co-performer)
The Herb Pomeroy Orchestra (isMemberOf)
Trombly, Preston (co-performer)
Tucker, George (co-performer)
Vicari, Frank (co-performer)
Warner music France
Williams, Richard
Titles: 
245
42nd Street
5-4 Medley
(5 min 11 s), Les
88
96.5
A.T.F.W. You
After the Lights Go Down Low
After the Race
Airegin
Al's In
All too soon
Amarcord
Amy
Apprehension
April Fool
Arisin’
AT-FW-YOU (5 min 09 s)
Bachafillen
Be-Bop
Beatrice
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Better get hit in yo' soul (6 min 28 s)
Better Git It in Your Soul
BL + WH (3 min 04 s)
Black Coffee
Black Diamond
black saint and the sinner lady, The
Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Parts 1 & 2
Blowin’ in the Wind
Bluebird
Blues for smoke
Body and Soul
Boogie Stop Shuffle
Bop nouveau (4 min 30 s)
Bright Moments Song
Can’t Get Out of This Mood
Can’t Get Started, I
Caravan (3 min 24 s)
Celia (6 min 12 s)
Chandra
Charlie Mingus - Paris 1964
Charlotte
Chromatics (8 min 28 s)
Cinco quatro boogie woogie (2 min 30 s)
Clark in the Dark
Cocktails for Two
Cocky Scott
Corner Time
Cousin Elma
Crazy for You
Cry Me Not
Cyclic Episode
Dames
Day to Mourn, A
Deep Song
Diane’s Melody
Do nothing till you hear from me (2 min 56 s)
Don’t Stand) A Ghost of a Chance, (I
Donna lee (6 min 32 s)
Downstairs Blues Upstairs
Duke Ellington medley (24 min 35 s)
Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
Duke's Choice
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too
Eat That Chicken
Ebony rhapsody
Ecclusiastics
Ellipsis
Embraceable you
Emily
Empirical
Fables of Faubus
Family man
Far cry (3 min 51 s)
Feel a Song Comin’ On, I
Flamingo (12 min 29 s)
Foolin’ Myself
Foxy
Freedom Together!
Fuchsia swing song
G.W.
Garr
Girl Crazy
Glad to Be Unhappy
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
got it bad and that ain't good, I
Got the Spirit
Grant's Stand
Guess Who I Saw Today
Half Nelson (6 min 01 s)
Happy New Year
Here's Jaki
Hi Fly
High Camp
Home
Honey Bunny
Honi Gordon sings
Hora decubitus (4 min 41 s)
House of Flowers
How About You?
How time passes (6 min 23 s)
If I Had You
II B.S. (4 min 46 s)
Impressions (1 min 58 s)
Improvisations
In a Mellow Tone
In a sentimental mood
In walked bud (8 min 06 s)
It Ain’t Necessarily So
It Never Entered My Mind
It's magic (5 min 38 s)
It's too late (3 min 16 s)
Jaki Byard Experience, The
Jamaican Sunset
Jazz Bary, The
Jean
Jitterbug Waltz
John Kennedy Memory Waltz
July in Paris
Kheil
Lady bird (7 min 47 s)
Land of Love
Land of make believe (3 min 32 s)
Last Lap
Last Page, The
Late Show - An Evening With Jaki Byard - Live at the Keystone Korner, Vol. 3, The
Laura
Left alone (6 min 39 s)
Left My Heart in San Francisco, I
Les
Like to Lead When I Dance, I
Live at the Keystone Corner, Vol. 2: A Matter of Black and White
Lonesome Road
Luminous Monolith
Lunar Tune, A
Lush Life
Mambo La Mans
Manhattan blues (6 min 24 s)
Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Volume Seventeen
Meditation on Integration
Meditations on integration (21 min 51 s)
Medley
Melancholia
Michael Marcus meets Jaki Byard - This happening
Milestones
Mingus at Monterey
Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
Miss Ann (4 min 14 s)
Miss Toni
Misty (7 min 41 s)
Mode D: Trio and Group Dancers / Mode E: Single Solos and Group Dance / Mode F: Group and Solo Dance
Mood indigo (4 min 40 s)
Mood indigo (4 min 43 s)
Motherless Child
Mrs. Parker of K.C. (Bird's Mother)
My Jelly Roll Soul
My little strayhorn (5 min 45 s)
Nefertiti
New Moon: Act I, The
New York, New York
New York’s My Home
Newport in New York [19]72
No, No, Nanette
No Tonic Pres
Not Quite That
Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
Now's the time (7 min 43 s)
O.P.
Ode to Charlie Parker (8 min 41 s)
Ode to Charlie Parker (8 min 45 s)
Ode to crispus attucks (5 min 40 s)
Olean visit (25 s)
On green dolphin street (6 min 06 s)
On the Spot!
On Your Toes
Once in a While
One note to my wife (3 min 15 s)
One Touch of Venus
Orange was the color of her dress, then blue silk (13 min 04 s)
Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue
Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues
Orange was the colour of her dress then blue silk (17 min)
Oslo to Kristiansund to Malmo
Out Front!
Outward bound
Ow!
Parisian Solos
Parkeriana
Peas ’n’ Rice
phantasies ii sound recording
Pit Stop
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
Portrait
Prelude n ° 29 (2 min 33 s)
Prelude to a kiss (2 min 06 s)
[Prologue.]
Reincarnation of a Lovebird
Relaxin’ at Camarillo
Repeat
Rip, Rig & Panic
Sallie (4 min 33 s)
Samba du Bois
Say What
Sea Train
Searchlight No. 2
Send for Me
Send one your love (4 min 17 s)
Serene (6 min 36 s)
She's funny that way
Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers, The
Show Boat: Act I
Simplex one (4 min 10 s), A
Single solos and group dance
So long Eric (18 min)
So what (2 min 03 s)
Solitude (4 min 30 s)
Solo Piano / Jaki Byard With Strings
Something to Live For
Sonata for two pianos (10 min 35 s)
Sophisticated Ladies
Sophisticated Lady (3 min 44 s)
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Stage I/ Stage II
Starting (7 min 23 s)
Strada, La
Straightaway
Stroking
Suite 27: Waterfall, Highways, Skyways, Waterways
Summer Knows, The
Summertime
Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Corner
Sweet and Lovely
Sweet Little Sixteen
Take the "A" train
Tea for two (6 min 57 s)
Tenderly (4 min 17 s)
That’s How It Went, All Right
Theme for Lester Young (5 min 50 s)
There'll Be Some Changes Made
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
Three More Foxes
Tin roof blues (3 min 40 s)
To B.S.
To them-to us
Track A: Solo Dancer
Track B: Duet Solo Dancers
Track C: Group Dancers
Tricotism (4 min 27 s)
Trio and group dancers
Two Different Worlds
Undulation
Up Shift
Victoria (4 min 41 s)
Waste (8 min 03 s)
Wende (3 min 42 s)
West Side Story
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
When the Sun Comes Out
When Your Lover Has Gone
Where Do You Go?
Willow Weep for Me
Wind, The
X love (7 min 38 s), I
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed January 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Byard, Jaki; John Arthur Byard Jr; jazz musician, pianist, saxophonist; born 15 June 1922 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; worked in local bands in Massachusetts (1938-1941); performed in army bands (1941-1946); worked in Boston (1946-1949); worked with Jerry Tyler's band (1950-1952), with Herb Pomeroy's big band (1952-1955); was part of Maynard Ferguson Big Band, New York (1959-1962); best known for his association with Charles Mingus group (sextet) (1962-1965); taught at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (1969); taught at Hartt School of Music, Northeastern University, Bennington College, Bismarck State College, University of Massachusetts; had two big bands with the same name, the Apollo Stompers: in Boston and in New York (1970s);died 11 February 1999 in Queens, New York, United States)
Associated Group: Hartt School of Music
Associated Group: Maynard Ferguson Big Band Charles Mingus Sextet New England Conservatory of Music Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.) Apollo Stompers (Musical Group) University of Massachusetts Amherst naf
Composers Jazz musicians Pianists Saxophonists
Duet [SR] p1975 (a.e.) cont. (Jaki Byard, jazz pianist)
His Giant steps [SR] c1978 label (Jaki Byard) container (b. 1922)
Jazz
Mingus, C. Pithycanthropus erectus [SR] p1985 container (Jacky Byard, piano)
New Grove dict. of jazz (Byard, Jaki (John A., Jr.); b. June 15, 1922, Worcester, MA; pianist, tenor saxophonist, and composer)
New York Times, Feb. 15, 1999 (Jaki Byard, jazz musician and teacher, 76; d. Feb. 11, 1999, Hollis, Queens)
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