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Donald Byrd: Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux
by Ian Patterson
Almost fifty years after the event, Donald Byrd's 1973 performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival finally sees the light of day. Several other artists on Blue Note's roster had performances released--in more timely manner--from the same edition of Claude Nobs festival, including Ronnie Foster, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson and Marlena Shaw. In no small part, thanks ...
Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
By Donald Byrd
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Black Byrd; You've Got It Bad Girl; The East; Introductions; Kwame; Poco-Mania.
Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Black Byrd; You’ve Got It Bad Girl; The East; Introductions; Kwame; Poco-Mania.
Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
by Mike Jurkovic
With the release of his chart-topping, funk-fueled Black Byrd in 1973, Donald Byrd found himself in a volatile place in jazz circles. He was being hailed as having finally stepped out of Miles Davis' considerable shadow, while simultaneously many found the album to be Byrd's selling out his bop legacy for chart success. As most defining ...
Theo Saunders: Intergeneration
by Chuck Koton
Born into the cultural vortex that is New York City's Upper West Side and raised by Broadway theater-performing parents, Theo Saunders was destined for the creative life. By the time he graduated from New York's prestigious High School for the Performing Arts, Saunders knew his future would be made seated in front of a piano playing ...
Ray Armando: Mallet Hands
by Jim Santella
Ray Armando wanted to be a baseball player. Growing up in Brooklyn can do that to you. But his family lived right across the street from conguero Mongo Santamaria, and that led to lessons at age eight. Armando went on the road at age 15 with Elmo Garcia and later with Tito Puente. Then began a ...
Comin' On Home
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1971
Track listing: Groovin' for Mr. G.; Theme from Love Story; "Mr. Clean; Down Home Funk; Don't Mess with Me; Wave; This Here.