Ethiopian Knights
Released: Aug 25, 1971
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Released: Aug 25, 1971
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Right from the stop-start bass groove that opens "The Emperor," it's immediately clear that Ethiopian Knights is more indebted to funk -- not just funky jazz, but the straight-up James Brown/Sly...
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Electric Byrd
Released: May 15, 1970
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Released: May 15, 1970
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Donald Byrd's transitional sessions from 1969-1971 are actually some of the trumpeter's most intriguing work, balancing accessible, funky, Davis-style fusion with legitimate jazz improvisation....
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Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions, Vol. 1
Released: 2006
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Released: 2006
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Believe it or not, the 2006 three-volume Lone Hill Jazz reissue of the complete Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab studio recordings marks the first comprehensive appearance of this body of work on...
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Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions, Vol. 3
Released: 2006
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Released: 2006
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Recorded in February, March and August 1957, the music on this third volume of the Lone Hill Jazz complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions of Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce is every bit as strong, solid and...
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Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions, Vol. 2
Released: 2006
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Released: 2006
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Volume two in the Lone Hill Jazz reissue label's Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab Project opens with three tracks that resulted from a planned college concert tour by the Jazz Lab and vocalist...
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Complete Blue Note Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Studio Sessions
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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Centered around the Byrd/Adams Blue Note dates Byrd in Hand, Chant, Royal Flush, The Cat Walk, and Off to the Races, Mosaic's Complete Blue Note Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Studio Sessions finds the...
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Early Byrd: The Best of the Jazz Soul Years
Released: Jun 24, 1966
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Released: Jun 24, 1966
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Early Byrd: The Best of the Jazz Soul Years contains a selection of nine tracks from Donald Byrd's mid-'60s recordings, bypassing his funkier fusions of the late '60s and early '70s. These songs --...
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Motor City Scene
Released: 1960
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Released: 1960
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This 1994 CD reissue brings back a set that has sometimes been issued under baritonist Pepper Adams' name, most recently as an LP called Stardust. Trumpeter Donald Byrd and Adams always made for a...
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Early Byrd
Released: Feb 5, 1957
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Released: Feb 5, 1957
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For a period trumpeter Donald Byrd and altoist Gigi Gryce led a group that they called the Jazz Lab Quintet. This fine double-LP contains two of their Columbia albums (Jazz Lab and Modern Jazz...
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