Bang on a Can Cantaloupe Music

After years of live collaboration, Don Byron and Bang on a Can step into the studio together to create Byron's follow-up to his Grammy-nominated Ivey-Divey. The inimitable clarinetist shows off his talent as a composer in his new CD with the genre-blurring Bang on a Can All-Stars.

The CD is dedicated to ground-breakers, with large-scale works dedicated to one-of-a-kind comic/satirist/star Ernie Kovacs, and to the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous African-American WWII-era fighter squadron.

Lovingly recorded by Byron long-time engineer Tom Lazarus, A Ballad for Many features the Bang on a Can All-Stars at their best, whether negotiating breathtaking cello-piano duets or rocking out with one of Byron's great grooves. This CD creates a unique opportunity to hear Byron's stunning compositional acumen as interpreted by a group other than his own.

"Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet—it just doesn't begin to describe it... Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category." -- TIME

"An intelligent and insightful composer" -- CMJ New Music Report