Tuskegee Experiments

Infobox Album
Name = Tuskegee Experiments
Type = studio
Artist = Don Byron


Released = 1992
Recorded = 1990–1991
Genre = Jazz
Length = 61:19
Label = Elektra/Nonesuch
Producer = Arthur Moorhead
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7dq67u5070ja]
Last album =
This album = "Tuskegee Experiments"
(1992)
Next album = "Plays the Music of Mickey Katz"
(1993)

"Tuskegee Experiments" is the first album as leader by jazz clarinettist Don Byron. Its title refers to the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male — the notorious medical experiment conducted around Tuskegee, Alabama, lasting from 1932 to 1972, in which 400 subjects, mainly poor, black sharecroppers, were used in an investigation of the effects of syphilis without their knowledge or consent. This album brought Byron almost immediate fame.

Track listing

#"Waltz for Ellen" (Byron) –3:05
#"Tuskegee Strutter's Ball" (Byron) –8:08
#"In Memoriam: Uncle Dan" (Byron) –5:20
#"Next Love" (Byron) –9:50
#"Tears" (Byron) –8:12
#"Main Stem" (Ellington) –7:26
#"Diego Rivera" (Byron) –9:23
#"Tuskegee Experiment" (Byron) –6:27
#"Auf einer Burg" (Schumann) –3:28 ::"(recorded November 1990 and July 1991.)

Personnel

*Don Byron — clarinet, bass clarinet
*Greta Buck — violin
*Bill Frisell — guitar
*Joe Berkovitz — piano
*Edsel Gomez — piano
*Richie Schwarz — marimba
*Kenny Davis — bass
*Lonnie Plaxico — bass
*Reggie Workman — bass
*Pheeroan akLaff — drums
*Ralph Peterson — drums