Donald Byrd

Donald Byrd: Collection (1960-1971)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 21, 2022
Donald Byrd: Collection (1960-1971)

Donald Byrd: Collection (1960-1971)
3LP | Vinyl Rip | 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Tracks) > 4.48 Gb | Artwork > 309 Mb
Blue Note | Hard Bop

~ 1960 - Byrd in Flight [2021, Blue Note B0032113-01] + 1961 - Chant [2019, Blue Note B0030234-01] + 1971 - Ethiopian Knights [2019, Blue Note 7759664 / 00602577596643] ~
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce - The Complete Jazz Lab Sessions (2013)

Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce - The Complete Jazz Lab Sessions (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.4 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 687 MB
4:59:24 | Jazz, Hard Bop, Bop | Label: Jazz Dynamics

This four-disc collection contains all of the recordings of one of the most interesting jazz groups from the late ‘50s, the Jazz Lab, compiled here for the first time ever on one release. Co-led by Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd, this set comprises the group’s five original studio albums (including all existing supplementary tunes and alternate takes from the sessions), presented here in their entirety and in chronological order. This edition also includes the Jazz Lab’s only known live performance, taped at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957. As a bonus, a complete Oscar Pettiford LP, which constitutes the only other small group collaboration of Gryce and Byrd, and is a precursor to the Jazz Lab sound, as well as a rare 1955 Gigi Gryce quartet session (with Pettiford on bass) in its entirety, which despite having no real relation to the later Gryce-Byrd formation, was issued under the title of Jazz Laboratory Series (probably Gryce chose the group’s name based on that previous release!).

Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (1962) [RVG Edition 2007]  Music

Posted by gribovar at July 27, 2024
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (1962) [RVG Edition 2007]

Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (1962) [RVG Edition 2007]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 297 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 95 MB | Covers - 61 MB
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (0946 3 74226 2 5)

Trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams worked together on several recordings between 1958 and 1961, and The Cat Walk (released on LP in 1962) is among the best. A quintet setting, with pianist Duke Pearson (another longtime Byrd collaborator), bassist Laymon Jackson, and a lively Philly Joe Jones on drums joining the front line of Byrd and Adams, the sessions for The Cat Walk benefited from the writing and arrangement skills of Pearson, who contributes three compositions here, the impressive opener "Say You're Mine," "Duke's Mixture," and "Hello Bright Sunflower," which borrows its melodic structure from the opening bars of "Lullaby of Broadway" and features Byrd using a muted trumpet…
Donald Byrd - Four Classic Albums (Off To The Races / Byrd In Hand / The Cat Walk / Royal Flush) (2022)

Donald Byrd - Four Classic Albums (Off To The Races / Byrd In Hand / The Cat Walk / Royal Flush) (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 1,06 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 394 Mb | Covers included | 02:39:43
Jazz, Hard Bop | Label: AVID Jazz

AVID Jazz presents the latest release in our Four Classic Album series with a second re-mastered 2CD release from Donald Byrd, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details.

Donald Byrd - A City Called Heaven (1991) {Landmark}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 27, 2024
Donald Byrd - A City Called Heaven (1991) {Landmark}

Donald Byrd - A City Called Heaven (1991) {Landmark}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 362MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 150MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop

Byrd's third and last album for Orrin Keepnews' Landmark label – Part Three of his mainstream comeback – is another mostly straightahead affair with a sextet, sounding a few high-minded themes and taking a few unusual twists. Twice, Art Blakey is memorialized with drummer Carl Allen's sturdy application of the Blakey shuffle ("King Arthur," "Byrd Song"), but his drumming also salutes the M-Base brigade on the concluding "Not Necessarily the Blues." "A City Called Heaven," the spiritual-turned-title track with an nearly operatic vocal by mezzo-soprano Lorice Stevens, gets a moving extended modal treatment where Byrd has some rapid flurries that usually, but not always, hit their mark.

Donald Byrd Quintet - Complete Live At The Olympia 1958 (2010)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 15, 2021
Donald Byrd Quintet - Complete Live At The Olympia 1958 (2010)

Donald Byrd Quintet - Complete Live At The Olympia 1958 (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 812 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 368 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Solar Records (4569875)

This release presents the complete October 22, 1958 concert by the Donald Byrd Quintet with Bobby Jaspar, performed at the famous Olympia Theatre. It contains both volumes of Byrd in Paris in their entirety, plus a rare version of “More of the Same” that is from the same performance but was only previously available on a long out of print compilation. Further tunes by the same group recorded at a Paris club a few days later (including three versions of songs that were also performed at the Olympia) have been added as a bonus.
Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (1962) {2010, K2/XRCD24, Japanese Reissue}

Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk (1962) {2010, K2/XRCD24, Japanese Reissue}
XLD Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 324 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 144 Mb
Full Scans | 00:40:47 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz, Bop | Blue Note #ST-84075 / EMI Music Special Markets #509992-64059-3-3 / Audio #AWMXR-0009

Trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams worked together on several recordings between 1958 and 1961, and The Cat Walk (released on LP in 1962) is among the best. A quintet setting, with pianist Duke Pearson (another longtime Byrd collaborator), bassist Laymon Jackson, and a lively Philly Joe Jones on drums joining the front line of Byrd and Adams, the sessions for The Cat Walk benefited from the writing and arrangement skills of Pearson, who contributes three compositions here, the impressive opener "Say You're Mine," "Duke's Mixture," and "Hello Bright Sunflower," which borrows its melodic structure from the opening bars of "Lullaby of Broadway" and features Byrd using a muted trumpet.

Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces (1975) Reissue 1997  Music

Posted by Designol at May 24, 2024
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces (1975) Reissue 1997

Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces (1975) Reissue 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 244 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 91 Mb | Scans included | 00:35:52
Jazz-Funk, Funk, Crossover Jazz | Label: Blue Note | # 7243 8 54326 2 0

Reuniting with Larry Mizell, the man behind his last three LPs, Donald Byrd continues to explore contemporary soul, funk, and R&B with Places and Spaces. In fact, the record sounds more urban than its predecessor, which often played like a Hollywood version of the inner city. Keeping the Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, and Sly Stone influences of Street Lady, Places and Spaces adds elements of Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Stevie Wonder, which immediately makes the album funkier and more soulful. Boasting sweeping string arrangements, sultry rhythm guitars, rubbery bass, murmuring flügelhorns, and punchy horn charts, the music falls halfway between the cinematic neo-funk of Street Lady and the proto-disco soul of Earth, Wind & Fire. Also, the title Places and Spaces does mean something – there are more open spaces within the music, which automatically makes it funkier. Of course, it also means that there isn't much of interest on Places and Spaces for jazz purists, but the album would appeal to most fans of Philly soul, lite funk, and proto-disco.
Donald Byrd - Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux (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.

Donald Byrd - Byrd In Paris (1958) [Reissue 2000]  Music

Posted by gribovar at July 28, 2023
Donald Byrd - Byrd In Paris (1958) [Reissue 2000]

Donald Byrd - Byrd In Paris (1958) [Reissue 2000]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 263 MB | Covers - 49 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal Music (833 994-2)

Trumpeter Donald Byrd spent a few months in France in 1958, and a Paris concert resulted in two LPs' worth of material. Byrd's quintet at the time included Bobby Jaspar (on tenor and flute), pianist Walter Davis, Jr., bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Art Taylor. Byrd was just beginning to find his own sound in the late '50s and he is in excellent form on "Dear Old Stockholm," Sonny Rollins' "Paul's Pal," Jaspar's "Flute Blues," "Ray's Idea," and "The Blues Walk." This is a fine all-around hard bop session.