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Article: Record Label Profile

Big Jazz on SmallsLIVE

by Bob Kenselaar
April 23, 2013

Since its launch in 2010, the SmallsLIVE record label has been offering a substantial sampling of the outstanding jazz talent consistently featured at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City's Greenwich Village. Musicians who appear on the label range from the great veterans Harold Mabern and Jimmy Cobb to contemporary players at the top of their ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The Feelin's Good

by Greg Simmons
March 31, 2013

The mists of time have a way of obscuring the motives behind people's decisions. “What were they thinking?" and “It must have seemed like a good idea at the time" must be among the most universal human sentiments. In the music business, a session gets recorded, and often it gets released, but occasionally it doesn't. Sometimes ...

Article: Big Band Report

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2013

With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...

Article: Live Review

Lakeland Jazz Festival 2013: Kirtland, Ohio, February 22-24

by Matt Marshall
March 3, 2013

41st Annual Lakeland Jazz FestivalKirtland, OhioFebruary 22-24, 2013 Scanning the list of guest artists who have appeared at the Lakeland Jazz Festival since its inception in 1973 reveals a history of acts with connections to the Northeast Ohio/Western Pennsylvania/Western New York area, with an internationally recognized name--Clark Terry, Donald Byrd, Kenny ...

Article: Hardly Strictly Jazz

Carole Simpson Remembered

by Skip Heller
February 21, 2013

As news of Donald Byrd's passing was leaking out slowly, jazz educator Keith Pawlak sent me a note on Facebook asking if I had heard that pianist/vocalist Carole Simpson had passed away. Her name is barely known except to a few collectors who specialize in female singers of the Eisenhower era. She was during ...

News: Obituary

Donald Byrd (1932-2013)

February 13, 2013

Death is a devastating event for loved ones. The finality of loss is crushing and leaves family members feeling helpless, particularly when the deceased is notable and the media seeks information. Over the past week or so, rumors circulated about the passing of trumpeter Donald Byrd. Some blogs and radio disc jockeys decided that a Facebook ...

News: Obituary

Innovative Jazz Trumpeter Donald Byrd Dies at 80

February 13, 2013

DOVER, DE: Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with hit jazz-funk fusion records such as “Black Byrd," has died. He was 80. He died Feb. 4 in Delaware, according to Haley Funeral Directors in ...

News: Obituary

Donald Byrd, 1932-2013

February 9, 2013

On several blogs and websites, a man name Alex Bugnon, a nephew of trumpeter Donald Byrd, is quoted as saying that Byrd died on Monday in Dover, Delaware, his home in recent years. According to the reports,Bugnon said that other members of Byrd‘s family were keeping the death of the 80-year-old jazz artist under “an unnecessary ...

Album

Jazz In Camera

By Donald Byrd

Label: Sonorama
Released: 2012
Track listing: Jazz In Camera - Bande I; Jazz In Camera - Bande II; Jazz In Camera - Bande III; Jazz In Camera - Bande IV; Jazz In Camera - Bande V; Jazz In Camera - Bande VI;

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