“Don Byas gave pride of place to one thing over all else: sound. He would blow a note and then hold it, making it swell into something ample and magnificent. Each note had the beauty of a cathedral.” Pierre VORAN

Tenor sax player is recorded here at the famed Harlem night spot, joined by a young Thelonious Monk & Helen Humes (in Monk biographies, the Minton sessions are viewed as his emergence)