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Don Byas

Don Byas (b.October 21, 1912 - d.August 24, 1972) was a popular African-American Jazz musician born in Muskogee, Oklahoma in the United States. He made 3 records between 1944 and 1946 and died of lung cancer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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