 | (Fallin´ Like) Dominoes - Donald Byrd
Tags: Jazz
Description: OMEGAjazzRADIO
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 | Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor
Tags: byrd, cristo, donald, rendentor, trumpet
Description: Na nana naaaa
wikipedia info about Mr. Byrd
Early life and education
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Byrd attended Cass Technical High School. He performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music.
Playing career
While still at the Manhattan School he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, replacing Clifford Brown. In 1955, he recorded with Jackie McLean and Mal Waldron. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956 he performed with a wide variety of highly regarded jazz musicians, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk. In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend Eric Dolphy in Paris just two weeks before Dolphy's tragic death from insulin shock.
In the 1970s, he moved away from his previous hard-bop jazz base and began to record jazz fusion, Jazz-funk, soul-Jazz, and rhythm and blues. Teaming up with the Mizell Brothers, they produced Black Byrd, which was enormously successful and became Blue Note Records' highest-ever selling album. The Mizell Brothers follow-up production albums for Byrd, Places and Spaces, Steppin' Into Tomorrow and Street Lady were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as Us3.
In 1993, Byrd teamed up with Gang Starr MC Guru for the track "Loungin'" on the Jazzmatazz project.
As a music educator
He has taught music at Rutgers University, the Hampton Institute, New York University, Howard University, and Oberlin College. In 1974 he created the Blackbyrds, a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits including "Rock Creek Park", "Walking In Rhythm" and "Blackbyrds Theme".
Byrd lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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 | Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Tags: and, Byrd, CL, Donald, Pete, PeteTreats, Places, Rock, Smooth, Spaces
Description: From 1975's "Places and Spaces" here's Donald Byrd's "Places and Spaces" the song from off the same name, used for "All the Places" by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
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 | Donald Byrd - Lansana's Priestess 1973
Tags: 1973, Byrd, Donald, Lansana's, Priestess
Description: " Street lady"
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 | Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around
Tags: 1970's, dance, deep, disco, electro, elektra, funk, groove, house, old, rare, salsoul, school, soul, wbmx
Description: 1980 Old School Disco Deep House Classic
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 | Think Twice Donald Byrd
Tags: byrd, donald, think, twice
Description: i could put up Mizell brothers songs all year i love those guys... love donald byrd too......large professor stopped loving his girl and told her all about it to this beat
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 | Donald Byrd - Blackjack
Tags: Blackjack, Byrd, Donald, jazz
Description: Donald Byrd - Blackjack
(D. Byrd) (Blue Note, EMI Int'l, 2000. Original Date: January 9, 1967)
Album "Blackjack"
Just the intro alone is all one needs this funksterpiece. Byrd sings over the groove and Sonny Red(as) and Hank Mobley(ts) dance to the beat.
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 | Donald Byrd - Dear Old Stockholm
Tags: Bobby, Byrd, Dear, Donald, Jaspar, jazz, Old, Stockholm
Description: Byrd in Paris Donald Byrd
Dear Old Stockholm
Donald Byrd(tp), Bobby Jaspar(ts,fl), Walter Davis, Jr.(p), Doug Watkins(b), Art Taylor(ds)
Recorded at '58/10/22 live at the Olympia, Paris
Polydor 833 394-2
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 | Donald Byrd - Xibaba
Tags: Brazil, funk, jazz, soul
Description: (Airton Moreira) (Blue Note, 1970)
Participation: Hermeto Pascoal's flute
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 | Street Lady - Donald Byrd
Tags: Jazz
Description: OMEGAjazzRADIO
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 | Donald Byrd - Wind Parade - 1975
Tags: Byrd, Donald, Parade, Wind
Description: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=32383412758
"Places and Spaces"
memories of beautifull vacations in the past with car while listening DB, God Bless Him
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