Black Byrd (CD)

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.