Tuskegee Experiments

Tuskegee Experiments
Studio album by Don Byron
Released	1992
Recorded	1990–1991
Genre	Jazz
Length	61:19
Label	Elektra/Nonesuch
Producer	Arthur Moorhead
Don Byron chronology
Tuskegee Experiments (1992) Plays the Music of Mickey Katz<br/ > (1993)

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This article is about the album. For the human experimentation incident, see Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

Tuskegee Experiments is the first album as leader by jazz clarinettist Don Byron. Its title refers to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment — 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

1. "Waltz for Ellen" (Byron) –3:05
2. "Tuskegee Strutter's Ball" (Byron) –8:08
3. "In Memoriam: Uncle Dan" (Byron) –5:20
4. "Next Love" (Byron) –9:50
5. "Tears" (Byron) –8:12
6. "Main Stem" (Ellington) –7:26
7. "Diego Rivera" (Byron) –9:23
8. "Tuskegee Experiment" (Byron) –6:27
9. "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