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In Reply to: RE: The smoothest jazz trumpet: Donald Byrd. posted by free.ranger on June 04, 2015 at 16:10:44
Byrd's solo on the title track of Coltrane's album is perhaps my favorite of all time. That's tough against Miles, but it is sooo smooth.
Anything else you can recommend? I've never heard any of his albums.
Peace,
Tom E
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as does everybody else in the killer band. Fantastic album.
Byrd experimented with genres as well as styles, and some of his work was expedient to match what producers told him to produce -- stuff that would sell. The result is that not all of his recordings were destined to be classics.
But his best work is THE best work, IMO. Not a Clifford Brown type, but he was a virtuoso of subtlety.
This is a list of what I have, adding to the above (all Blue Note). Its a good charting of his changing works:
- "Fuego", 1960, with Jackie McLean, Duke Pearson, Doug Watkins, Lex Humphries.
- "Byrd in Flight", 1960, with the above plus Hank Mobley.
- "A New Perspective, Band & Voices", 1963, with the above plus Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Kenny Burrell, Donald Best, and a small vocal group.
- "Slow Drag", 1967, with Sonny Red, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins.
- "Black Byrd", 1972, with Joe Sample, Chuck Rainey, and a few others with names not recognized by me from anywhere else.
Maybe by looking at those lineups, you can get a feel for the way his music turned.
Late 50s, early 60s.
A great album is Legrand Jazz. There is a tune on it where Byrd and Art Farmer do a chase. The whole album is sensational with Miles, Ben Webster and many more.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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his solo on Black Pearls/Lover, coming in after Coltrane.
Not many could follow That Solo!
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