Byrd Jazz

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Byrd Jazz
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Live album by
Donald Byrd
Released1956
RecordedAugust 23, 1955
VenueNew World Stage Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
Genre Jazz
Length55:27
Label Transition
TRLP 5
Producer Tom Wilson
Donald Byrd chronology
Byrd Jazz
(1956)		 Byrd's Word
(1955)

Byrd Jazz is an album by trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in Detroit in 1955 and originally released on Tom Wilson's Transition label. [1] The album contains Byrd's first recordings as a leader (although the sessions that comprised Byrd's Eye View were released first), and was later re-released as First Flight on the Delmark label.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

In his review for Allmusic, Scott Yanow stated "all of the music is straightahead and swinging. A fine beginning for the very interesting career of Donald Byrd". [2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz criticized the recording quality, and rated Lateef's soloing as more authoritative than that of Byrd. [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Donald Byrd except as indicated

  1. "Blues" (Clifford Brown)* - 6:15
  2. "Tortion Level" - 6:26
  3. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 7:32
  4. "Dancing in the Dark" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 7:37
  5. "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) - 14:26
  6. "Yusef" (Barry Harris) - 5:36
  7. "Shaw 'Nuff" (Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) - 6:50

* the name of this track on the original LP was Blues but it is Clifford Brown's theme The Blues Walk which was first recorded and released on the 1954 album "Clifford Brown & Max Roach".

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Donald Byrd discography accessed September 3, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 3, 2012
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. p. 170. ISBN   978-0-14-015364-4.
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