Flight of the Fly

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Flight of the Fly
Studio album by Jaki Byard
Recorded c. 1976
Genre Jazz
Label Le Chant du Monde
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Flight of the Fly is a solo album by jazz pianist Jaki Byard.

Jaki Byard American musician

John Arthur "Jaki" Byard was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger. Mainly a pianist, he also played tenor and alto saxophones, among several other instruments. He was known for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and stride to free jazz.

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Recording and music

The album was recorded for the French label Le Chant du Monde [1] around 1976. [3] The title track contains left-hand stride playing with right-hand hard bop lines. [1] "Sweet Georgia Brown" begins as a ballad but then becomes a stride performance. [1]

Le Chant du monde is the oldest French music publishing house in existence. It was created in 1938 by Léon Moussinac and was supported in the beginning by classical composers Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Charles Koechlin, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Albert Roussel, and conductors Roger Désormière and Manuel Rosenthal.

Stride (music) jazz piano style

Harlem stride piano, stride piano, commonly abbreviated to stride, is a jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast of the United States, mainly New York City, during the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, major seventh or major tenth Interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. Occasionally this pattern is reversed by placing the chord on the downbeat and bass note(s) on the upbeat. Unlike performers of the ragtime popularized by Scott Joplin and unlike much early jazz, stride players' left hands often leapt greater distances on the keyboard, and they played in a wider range of tempos and with a greater emphasis on improvisation.

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.

Track listing

  1. "Flight of the Fly"
  2. "Every Year/Stairway to the Stars/Love Is the Sweetest Thing"
  3. "Sweet Georgia Brown"
  4. "Graduation"
  5. "The Avant Garde of 1921"

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dryden, Ken "Jaki Byard – Flight of the Fly". Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2004) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin.
  3. ↑ Bruyninckx, Walter 60 Years of Recorded Jazz 1917-1977, Volume 2. Walter Bruyninckx.
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