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Format: CD
Label: Blue Note
Year: 2014
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1 Flight Time
2 Black Byrd
3 Love's So Far Away
4 Mr. Thomas
5 Sky High
6 Slop Jar Blues
7 Where Are We Going?
Originally released in 1973.
PERSONNEL:
Bass – Chuck Rainey, Wilton Felder
Drums – Harvey Mason
Electric Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals – Freddie Perren
Flute, Saxophone – Roger Glenn
Guitar – David T. Walker, Dean Parks
Percussion – Bobbye Porter Hall, Stephanie Spruill
Piano, Electric Piano – Joe Sample
Vocals – Larry Mizell
Trumpet, Vocals – Fonce Mizell
Donald Byrd was one of the most consistent trumpeters to come out of the fertile Detroit jazz scene that emigrated to New York in the mid-'50s. Byrd possessed a beautiful, round, brassy tone often applied with intriguing ideas in intoxicating displays of exquisite jazz showmanship.
This album captures Byrd at the outset of his DC period, while he was teaching (and studying law) at Howard University. In the time it took him to earn his degree, he also released four incredible LPs of pioneering jazz-funk, and organized The Blackbyrds band on Howard's campus--who themselves would go on to stardom in that genre.
Label: Blue Note
Year: 2014
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
1 Flight Time
2 Black Byrd
3 Love's So Far Away
4 Mr. Thomas
5 Sky High
6 Slop Jar Blues
7 Where Are We Going?
Originally released in 1973.
PERSONNEL:
Bass – Chuck Rainey, Wilton Felder
Drums – Harvey Mason
Electric Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals – Freddie Perren
Flute, Saxophone – Roger Glenn
Guitar – David T. Walker, Dean Parks
Percussion – Bobbye Porter Hall, Stephanie Spruill
Piano, Electric Piano – Joe Sample
Vocals – Larry Mizell
Trumpet, Vocals – Fonce Mizell
Donald Byrd was one of the most consistent trumpeters to come out of the fertile Detroit jazz scene that emigrated to New York in the mid-'50s. Byrd possessed a beautiful, round, brassy tone often applied with intriguing ideas in intoxicating displays of exquisite jazz showmanship.
This album captures Byrd at the outset of his DC period, while he was teaching (and studying law) at Howard University. In the time it took him to earn his degree, he also released four incredible LPs of pioneering jazz-funk, and organized The Blackbyrds band on Howard's campus--who themselves would go on to stardom in that genre.