Byrd Jazz

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FieldValue
nameByrd Jazz
typeLive album
artistDonald Byrd
coverByrd Jazz.jpg
released1956
recordedAugust 23, 1955
venueNew World Stage Theatre, Detroit, Michigan
genreJazz
length55:27
labelTransition
TRLP 5
producerTom Wilson
chronologyDonald Byrd
next_titleByrd's Word
next_year1955
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| name = Byrd Jazz | type = Live album | artist = Donald Byrd | cover = Byrd Jazz.jpg | alt = | released = 1956 | recorded = August 23, 1955 | venue = New World Stage Theatre, Detroit, Michigan | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 55:27 | label = Transition TRLP 5 | producer = Tom Wilson | chronology = Donald Byrd | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Byrd's Word | next_year = 1955

Byrd Jazz is an album by trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in Detroit in 1955 and originally released on Tom Wilson's Transition label. 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.

Reception

| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = 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". The Penguin Guide to Jazz criticized the recording quality, and rated Lateef's soloing as more authoritative than that of Byrd.

Track listing

All compositions by Donald Byrd except as indicated

  1. "Blues" (Clifford Brown)* - 6:15
  2. "Torsion 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

References

References

  1. [http://www.jazzdisco.org/donald-byrd/catalog/#transition-trlp-5 Donald Byrd discography] accessed September 3, 2012
  2. (1992). "[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz". [[Penguin Books.
  3. Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/first-flight-yusef-lateef-with-donald-byrd-mw0000266267 Allmusic Review] accessed September 3, 2012

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