Donald Byrd: Transition Sessions on 2 CDs
Transition Sessions
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Fresh Sound
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1955-56
- Item number:
- 5869097
- UPC/EAN:
- 8427328608367
- Release date:
- 16.9.2014
*** 24Bit digitally remastered
Product Information
Donald Byrd (1932-2013) was among the most creative of the post-Miles Davis generation of jazz trumpeters, already acclaimed when, at 23, he replaced Clifford Brown in Art Blakey's Messengers in 1955.
On »Byrd’s Eye View«, the first of these early Byrd studio dates for the small Transition label, he had his Jazz Messengers colleagues, Mobley, Silver, Watkins and Blakey, along with Boston trumpeter Joe Gordon, whose more outgoing style complemented Byrd’s supple, lyrical, rather introverted approach and fresh conception on an improvising session full of heated, crisp exchanges.
The second album, »Watkins at Large«, was bassist Doug Watkins' first date as a leader and a great example of his confident soloing. Byrd is again in vividly dramatic form, with authoritative playing by Mobley and Burrell, sustained by a vigorous rhythm section
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
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1 Doug's Blues
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2 El Sino
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3 Everything Happens to Me
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4 Hank's Tune
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5 Hank's Other Tune
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6 Crazy Rhythm
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7 Phil T. McNasty's Blues
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8 More of the Same
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
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1 Panonica
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2 Return to Paradise
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3 Phinupi
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4 Little Rock Getaway
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5 Polka Dots and Moonbeams
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6 People Will Say We're In Love
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7 If I Love Again
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8 What's New
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9 Stella by Starlight
