Ivey-Divey

Ivey-Divey
Studio album by
Don Byron
Released2004
GenreJazz
LabelBlue Note
ProducerHans Wendl
Don Byron chronology
You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians
(2001)		 Ivey-Divey
(2004)		 Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Walker
(2006)

Ivey-Divey is an album by the American musician Don Byron, released in 2004. He supported it with a North American tour. Byron, for "I Want to Be Happy", was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Instrumental Solo".

Production

The album is a tribute to Lester Young's 1946 recordings with Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich; the title comes from one of Young's expressions about going with the flow. Byron, playing tenor saxophone and clarinet, was backed by Jack DeJohnette on drums and Jason Moran on piano. The trumpeter Ralph Alessi and the bassist Lonnie Plaxico contributed to a few tracks. "Abie the Fishman" refers to a gag from the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers. "Freddie Freeloader" and "In a Silent Way" are versions of the Miles Davis compositions.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar
The GazetteStarStarStarStarHalf star
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStarHalf star

The New York Times considered Ivey-Divey to be Byron's "best album in years". The Village Voice said that "DeJohnette, always a painterly drummer, evoked Rich's skittering, mostly brushes work on the CD but scattered each measure's beats to enable a wildly elastic, thoroughly modern sense of swing." The Gazette praised "Lefty Teachers at Home". Newsday listed Ivey-Divey as the third best jazz album of 2004 and noted that Young "would have dug the dreadlocked clarinetist, as much for the latter's love of the put-on as for his easy-does-it eclecticism."

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."I Want to Be Happy" 
2."Somebody Loves Me" 
3."I Cover the Waterfront" 
4."I've Found a New Baby" 
5."Himm (For Our Lord and Kirk Franklin)" 
6."The Good Drag" 
7."Abie the Fishman" 
8."Lefty Teachers at Home" 
9."'Leopold, Leopold...'" 
10."Freddie Freeloader" 
11."In a Silent Way" 
12."Somebody Loves Me" (Alternate Take) 

References

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  2. ↑ Norment, Lynn (October 2004). "Sounding Off". Ebony. Vol. 59, no. 12. p. 44.
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  4. ↑ "Difficult Choices". Jazziz. Vol. 22, no. 2. February 2005. p. 18.
  5. ↑ Steinberg, David (October 29, 2004). "Musician embraces 2nd love". Venue. Albuquerque Journal. p. 15.
  6. ↑ Prince, David (October 29, 2004). "Don Byron Putting the Clarinet Back in Jazz". The Santa Fe New Mexican. p. P28.
  7. ↑ Heaton, Roger (2013). The Versatile Clarinet. Taylor & Francis. p. 65.
  8. ↑ Gelly, Dave (November 28, 2004). "Review: Jazz". The Observer. p. 17.
  9. ↑ Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. Duke University Press. 2007. p. 61.
  10. ↑ "OMM: Review: And the Rest: New Releases". The Observer. October 17, 2004. p. 59.
  11. ↑ "Ivey-Divey Review by Matt Collar". AllMusic. Retrieved September 12, 2026.
  12. 1 2 "Newly released compact discs". The Gazette. December 16, 2004. p. D8.
  13. ↑ The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin Books. 2008. p. 214.
  14. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (September 12, 2004). "Nelly Gets Conceptual, and Jazz Comes to Columbus Circle". The New York Times. p. 2.69.
  15. ↑ Blumenfeld, Larry (October 27, 2004). "Don Byron". The Village Voice. Vol. 49, no. 43. p. 86.
  16. ↑ Seymour, Gene (December 26, 2004). "The Best of 2004". Newsday. p. C20.