Browse by Artist: BYRD, DONALD

Artist:	BYRD, DONALD
Title:	Slow Drag
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BLP 4292LP

Gatefold exact repro reissue, originally released in 1967. Featuring Sonny Red, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker and Billy Higgins. "Slow Drag was one of trumpeter Donald Byrd's final hard bop dates. Teamed with altoist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Billy Higgins (who takes a surprise vocal on the title cut), this quintet outing features originals by Byrd, Walton and Red along with the standards 'Secret Love' and 'My Ideal.' The music in general finds Byrd looking both backwards toward the blues and forwards toward modal music and hints of the avant-garde. A fine effort." --All Music

Artist:	BYRD, DONALD
Title:	Electric Byrd
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BST 84349LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released on Blue Note in 1970. "Donald Byrd's transitional sessions from 1969-1971 are actually some of the trumpeter's most intriguing work, balancing accessible, funky, Davis-style fusion with legitimate jazz improvisation. Electric Byrd, from 1970, is the best of the bunch, as Byrd absorbs the innovations of Bitches Brew and comes up with one of his most consistent fusion sets of any flavor. Byrd leads his largest fusion group yet (ten to 11 pieces), featuring many of his cohorts of the time (including Jerry Dodgion, Lew Tabackin, and Frank Foster on various woodwinds). Most important are electric pianist Duke Pearson, who once again dominates the arrangements, and percussionist Airto Moreira, who in places lends a strong Brazilian feel that predates Return to Forever. Moreira also contributes one of the four compositions, 'Xibaba,' which starts out as an airy Brazilian tune but morphs into a free-form effects extravaganza; the rest are Byrd originals that prove equally imaginative and diverse." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	BYRD, DONALD
Title:	Ethiopian Knights
Label:	BLUE NOTE
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	BST 84380LP

Exact repro reissue, originally released on Blue Note in 1971. "Right from the stop-start bass groove that opens 'The Emperor,' it's immediately clear that Ethiopian Knights is more indebted to funk -- not just funky jazz, but the straight-up James Brown/Sly Stone variety -- than any previous Donald Byrd project. And, like a true funk band, Byrd and his group work the same driving, polyrhythmic grooves over and over, making rhythm the focal point of the music." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	BYRD, DONALD
Title:	Royal Flush
Label:	DOXY (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	DOX 861LP

"Originally released in 1961, Royal Flush was trumpeter Donald Byrd's eighth album for Blue Note. During this period, Byrd--who was then perhaps the finest living hard bop trumpeter--had begun concentrating his efforts on a quintet formed with baritone sax player Pepper Adams. Featuring Butch Warren on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, the quintet was most notable however, for introducing a 21-year-old Herbie Hancock to the jazz world, in his first ever recorded session! The album also features Hancock's first recorded composition, "Requiem". Hancock's first session as leader would not appear until the following year with 1962's Takin' Off."

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