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just did a quick search of the text and I didn't read it this time like I did when I was indexing, for some reason I was thinking about the Amalia Rodrigues recording. Don Byas performed in both jazz and non-jazz settings while in Europe, though he would turn down jazz record dates if he thought they didn't pay what he merited. The recordings issued by Black Lion at the Club Montmartre were some of the first 1960s recordings that I heard by him and they tell me he should have been recorded much more. Pardon me for not remembering Luis Rovira, he was not a major name in the bio.

This is the line-up I had considered for the Rip RiG + Panic I'm Cold record Don Cherry tp, mel, vcl, Gareth Sager as, bcl, Alph Wait tbn, David "Flash" Wright sax, Jez Parfitt bs, Mark Springer p, Sarah Sarahandi viola, Debbie cello, Sean Oliver b, Giles Leaman perc, Bruce Smith, Steve Noble dr, Neneh Cherry, Andrea Oliver vcl     Now I am no longer sure because by checking at : https://www.discogs.com/it/release/4653342-Rip-Rig-Panic-I-Am-Cold   I would also like to know whether on the disc: Live At Womad 1982 held at: Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet,, July 18, 1982 in the track: You're My Kind Of Climate Don Cherry plays I have found numerous pieces of information that seem to confirm his presence but I cannot recognise him. I look forward to your help

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Luis Rovira on one single page is fair enough coverage for Don Byas' involvement with that band in 1947. Anyway .. not wanting to pick nits at all , but these were indeed jazz (or jazzish) recordings (within the admittedly still a bit limited framework of what European jazzmen were able to put on wax in post-1945 Europe, but seminal recordings for the recovering post-1945 scene in Barcelona). The presence of Don Byas (and other "defectors" from the Don Redman band who chose to stay over here) on the post-war European jazz scene was a boon and impetus for many young European jazzers, and no mean achievement of Don Byas. And the Barcelona days were part of the beginning of why he was held in such esteem in Europe. As for the Estrellas, I'll throw a couple of names at you, then: Josep Puertas, George Johnson (another expat!!) , Josep Ballester, Antonio Bardají "Chispa" (both Ballester and "Chispa" seem to have been jazzmen of almost mythical proportions on the jazz scene in the Catalunya region of Spain during that period). https://www.discogs.com/de/master/919653-Don-Byas-1947-Those-Barcelona-Days Just sayin'