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Donald Byrd - Black Byrd (1973/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 15, 2024

"Black Byrd" is the pivotal 1973 masterpiece by jazz legend Donald Byrd. This monumental album presented Byrd’s acclaimed brand of fusion. Black Byrd is one of Blue Note’s bestselling albums of all time and highlights Byrd’s undeniable knack for sound. It reached #1 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums and #2 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums. It features the thrilling self-titled single, which reached the Top Twenty on Billboard’s Top R&B Singles.

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Donald Byrd - Black Byrd (1973) [Reissue 2019] MCH PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Oct. 29, 2020

A landmark album – Donald Byrd's first session with producer Larry Mizell, the man who went onto forever change the face of jazz funk! After rumbling around for a few years attempting electric styles that really didn't fit his mode, Donald wisely hooked up with Larry, and hit a groove here that would carry him for many many years. The album's a masterpiece of soul – heavy production with great keyboards, creating a nice set of grooves that let Byrd solo over the top, sounding better than he had in years! Great all the way through, and with tracks that include "Flight Time", "Sky High", "Black Byrd", "Slop Jar Blues", "Mr Thomas", and the prophetically-titled "Where Are We Going?".

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VA - Classic Blue Note [3CD Box Set] (2015) Music

Posted by JET 1 at Jan. 16, 2022

Compiled from both Warner and Universal Music’s extensive catalogues this 3CD collection of Classic Blue Note repertoire features the most iconic performances from the biggest names in the genre. Including the likes of musical legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk and many more…

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Donald Byrd - Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 8, 2022

Donald Byrd - Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 297 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 106 MB
45:22 | Jazz, Funk, Soul | Label: Blue Note Records

In July 1973, Blue Note Records headed to Montreux, Switzerland to showcase several of the label’s stars at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Produced by Blue Note President George Butler, live albums all titled Live: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux followed from vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, organist Ronnie Foster, flutist Bobbi Humphrey, and vocalist Marlena Shaw, but one of the performances by trumpeter Donald Byrd remained unreleased in the Blue Note vaults, until now.

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Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (1964) [RVG Edition 1999] (Repost) Music

Posted by gribovar at March 1, 2024

This unusual set was one of the most successful uses of a gospel choir in a jazz context. Trumpeter Donald Byrd and a septet that includes tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, guitarist Kenny Burrell, and pianist Herbie Hancock are joined by an eight-voice choir directed by Coleridge Perkinson. The arrangements by Duke Pearson are masterful and one song, "Cristo Redentor," became a bit of a hit. This is a memorable effort that is innovative in its own way, a milestone in Donald Byrd's career.

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John Coltrane - Black Pearls (1964/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 9, 2022

John Coltrane - Black Pearls (1964/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 38:49 minutes | 959 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This album was recorded in the late 1950s but not released until 1964 to capitalize on John Coltrane's ever-increasing fame and success. Essentially an improvised extended jam session with Donald Byrd on trumpet, Red Garland on piano and drummer Art Taylor, this epitomizes Coltrane's trademark "sheets of sound".

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Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (1963/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Feb. 10, 2024

"A New Perspective" was released in 1963 on Blue Note Records. Considered to be one of the best and most successful uses of a gospel choir in a jazz context. Byrd himself said about the album, "I mean this album seriously. Because of my own background, I've always wanted to write an entire album of spiritual-like pieces. The most accurate way I can describe what we were all trying to do is that this is a modern hymnal. In an earlier period, the New Orleans jazzmen would often play religious music for exactly what it was - but with their own jazz textures and techniques added. Now, as modern jazzmen, we're also approaching this tradition with respect and great pleasure".

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Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (1964) [Reissue 1988] Music

Posted by gribovar at July 31, 2022

This unusual set was one of the most successful uses of a gospel choir in a jazz context. Trumpeter Donald Byrd and a septet that includes tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, guitarist Kenny Burrell, and pianist Herbie Hancock are joined by an eight-voice choir directed by Coleridge Perkinson. The arrangements by Duke Pearson are masterful and one song, "Cristo Redentor," became a bit of a hit. This is a memorable effort that is innovative in its own way, a milestone in Donald Byrd's career.

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Donald Byrd - Caricatures (1976) [Reissue 2003] (Re-up) Music

Posted by gribovar at Nov. 20, 2020

Donald Byrd - Caricatures (1976) [Reissue 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 264 MB | Covers (6 MB) included
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 5 80732 2 5)

One of his last efforts with the Mizell production team was definitely not his most critically acclaimed, but Caricatures continued Byrd's commercial winning streak that started years previous with 1969's Kofi and such '70s Blue Note classics as Places and Spaces, Black Byrd, and Street Lady. His last release for the label was no exception to the formula set forth from the previously mentioned albums. One of Caricatures strongest features is the level of musicianship from start to finish. Byrd recruited some of the top '70s soul-jazz musicians, such as Gary Bartz, Alphonse Mouzon, David T Walker, and future '80s R&B hitmaker Patrice Rushen, to help complement the musicianship laid down by Byrd and the Mizell brothers…

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Donald Byrd - Places And Spaces (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) (1975/2021) [24bit/192kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 6, 2021

Donald Byrd’s 1975 fusion classic Places and Spaces was the culmination of the legendary trumpeter’s vibrant latter Blue Note years. Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over two decades evolved from a top-notch hard bop trumpeter into a pioneer of R&B/Funk fusion, leading the label’s own creative direction along a similar path.

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