Don Byron is a conceptualist and a composer first and a player (clarinet and tenor sax) second. His brain is the real attraction. Few musicians could come up with an album as thoughtfully crafted as “Ivey-Divey” (Blue Note 78215). (The title comes from an exclamation employed by Lester Young in one of his few recorded interviews.)

The album begins with four standards from the 1946 Young-Cole session, as well as “The Goon Drag” from an earlier Young session with Sammy Price. Mr. Byron’s originals reference Bugs Bunny and the Marx Brothers, while the inclusion of two of Miles Davis’s compositions illustrate that Mr. Byron is well aware of common spiritual ground shared between the Pres and the Dark Prince. Here the interplay between the three musicians – Jason Moran, piano, and Jack DeJohnette, drums – is more important than virtuoso solo work, and that’s as it should be.

Billed as “Don Byron and his Ivey-Divey Trio,” the clarinetist and his ensemble are on tour this month in support of the recently released CD, with Mr. Byron on tenor and clarinet, the outstanding pianist Jason Moran, and Billy Hart replacing Jack DeJohnette on most road stops. This Friday marks their only appearance in New York. They’re playing the beautifully renovated Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space.

October 8 at 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. (2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, 212-864-1414).