[78-L] Billy Byers

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

I don’t recall when it happened, but the first time I could actually 
compare the covers of the RCA Billy Byers Jazz workshop and Manny Albam 
Jazz Workshop albums, I noted how similar they were. The poses were 
similar. Both men wore glasses. It looked like RCA photographed the 
same person but from different angles. I greatly enjoyed these and 
other Jazz Workshop albums that RCA issued in the ’50s. Both Byers and 
Albam were musicians I paid attention to in the ’50s.
Geoffrey.