Coming out April 15th. Here's the blurb: Don Byas (1913–1972) may be lesser known than the counterparts he played with―Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others―but he was an enigma. He never stayed with a band for long, and eventually went solo partly to make more money and partly due to his inability to work with bandleaders. Often drinking to excess, alcohol fueled his sometimes-erratic behavior on and off the bandstand. He went through at least thirteen different gr