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A New Perspective

By Donald Byrd

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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Donald Byrd: A New Perspective

by Jim Santella
May 1, 1997

With his flair for innovation, Donald Byrd, in late 1963, put together a septet that was recorded with the Coleridge Perkinson Choir providing a capella Gospel support. Duke Pearson provided arrangements which carefully weave eight wordless voices in and out of the septet's blues-derived compositions. Byrd's father was a Methodist minister, so the trumpeter worked with ...

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