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The Blackbyrds

What Is Jazz? Vol.1 with Jimmy Mac

by Mr Lob
October 6, 2018

What is Jazz? Is it freedom, is it tradition, is it alive, does it continue to evolve and thrive or is it an art form stuck in time? I cannot answer any of these questions or even really tell you what Jazz is. I can tell you how it makes me feel, where it takes me ...

At the Movies

By The Blackbyrds

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Cornbread, Earl and Me: Cornbread/ The One-Eye Two-Step/ Mother/Son Theme/ A Heavy Town/ One-Gun Salute/ The Gym Fight/ Riot/ Soulful Source/ Mother/Son Talk/ At the Carnival/ Candy Store Dilemma/ Wilford

Blackbyrds & Charles Earland: At the Movies

by Derek Taylor
May 1, 2001

Basketball and Blaxploitation collide courtside in the film Cornbread, Earl and Me a mid-70s urban blockbuster with a soundtrack scored by Donald Byrd, which comprises the first part of this recent Prestige two-fer. Bringing in his band of former pupil protégés The Blackbyrds and backing them with a studio orchestra Byrd set about tailoring music to ...