Results for "Donald Byrd"

Duo Hofmaninger / Schwarz, Charles Stepney, Jeff Parker, Donald Byrd & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 7, 2023

Precious archival recordings featuring unheard music by Charles Stepney, Donald Byrd and Miles Davis open this edition of Mondo Jazz featuring new and upcoming albums. The playlist is completed by the epic live album by Jeff Parker Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy, and the intriguing work of young European players. Happy listening!

A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 28, 2023

As this is our last show in 2022, our playlist focus on the songs we've loved the most in the last six months of what was an incredibly prolific year for jazz. Here's to a new year that hopefully will bring us much great music as 2022 did!Happy listening... and a happy new year!

John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop

Label: Strut / Art Yard
Released: 2022
Track listing: John Sinclair: Introduction; Donald Byrd: Cristo Redentor; Donald Byrd: Blackjack; Detroit Contemporary 4: EFFI; Detroit Contemporary 4: The Promise: Detroit Contemporary 4: Three Flowers; Bennie Maupin Quartet: Water Torture; Ron English: Bees; Teddy Harris: Passion Dance; Lyman Woodard: Déjà Vu; Lyman Woodard Organization: Help Me Get Away.

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.

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.

Cannes ‘58

By Donald Byrd

Label: Sam Records (8)
Released: 2022
Track listing: I Get A Kick Out Of You; It Could Happen To You; Long To You; When Your Love Has Gone Away; Flute Bop; Boogie Woogie;

Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

by Peter Jones
December 30, 2022

What a treat it must have been in 1973 to attend the Montreux Jazz Festival: the featured artists that year included Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Sam Rivers, Bobbi Humphrey, Dr John, Marlena Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson... and Donald Byrd with his Tentet, whose July 5 performance is captured on this album. It was ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux

by Mike Jurkovic
December 18, 2022

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 ...

A Night At Minton's Playhouse + New Finds And Releases

by David Brown
December 13, 2022

This week, we visit Minton's Playhouse in Harlem to check out Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis with Johnny Griffin for a two-tenor workout. We'll spin selections from three LP's The First Set, The Midnight Set, and The Late Show all documenting sets performed by the Davis/Griffin Quintet on January 6, 1961. Then, we'll celebrate the sounds of the ...