JAZZ EVENT BENEFITS JAKI BYARD FAMILY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight) From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: March 19, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Norman Provizer Denver Rocky Mountain News Jazz Critic

For any jazz fan growing up in Boston as I did in the late '50s and early '60s, the band in town was the orchestra led by trumpeter Herb Pomeroy.

As strange as it may sound, one of the saxophonists in Pomeroy's big band was a world-class piano player named Jaki Byard.

Last month, the 76-year-old Byard was killed in his New York home. Saturday one of his students, Denver-based pianist Geoff Cleveland, remembers his teacher with a memorial concert to benefit the Byard family.

The event begins at 4 p.m. ...

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