Lottery: Donald Byrd - Free Form on Blue Note Records
Posted by Dennis Wiesch on 27 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Between the Beats, Lottery, Music, Newsletter
If you register now for our newsletter, you will automatically participate in our price draw. This week will give away 5 copies of the Donald Byrd CD »Free Form« (Blue Note Records).
Byrd is definitely among the most influential trumpet players. Born in 1932, he played with almost every »big name« in jazz during his career (Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane or Art Blakey). In the 60s he had his own quintet before he founded the legendary »Blackbyrds« in the 70s. Donald Byrd also studied composition in Paris, was an orchestral arranger and lectured at various universities in the US.
On »Free Form« Byrd had a very high calibre band with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins. With producer Alfred Lion and the fantastic sound engineer Rudy van Gelder, Donald Byrd created wonderful pieces like »Pentacostal Feeling« or the wonderful »Night Flower«. We believe, »Free Form« is a good example of Donald Byrd’s virtuosity.
Good luck for the draw and talk to you soon.
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on 17 Jul 2009 at 11:59 am 3.Designers of jazz album covers - Between the Beats said …
[...] attention to is Reid Miles. He designed many covers for the great Blue Note label, one of them is “Free Form” of Donald Byrd, an album we once raffled on our [...]