Oklahoma Musicians

Hall of Fame history

Don Byas

Don Byas played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, led his own band, and spent much of his postwar career in Europe. This is the second official roster appearance in the batch.

Oklahoma connection

The official 2022 OMHOF announcement identifies Carlos Wesley Don Byas as a Muskogee-born jazz tenor saxophonist.

Recognition

The captured Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame roster places this entry under 2022.

Questions in the source record

Explain or confirm why Byas appears in both the 2020 and 2022 official roster sections; resolve exact birth-date conflict and image reuse permission.

Sources

  1. okmusichall.com/inductees/
  2. okmusichall.com/news/hall-of-fame-names-2022-inductees/
  3. www.okhistory.org/pdf/african-americans.pdf

Related source accounts

These records use the same display name in different source contexts. They remain separate accounts.