Donald Byrd - Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 1-10 '2017

Tracks list

Tracklist

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 1
01. Lover Come Back to Me
02. When Your Love Has Gone
03. Sudwest Funk
04. Paul's Pal
05. Off to the Races
06. Down Tempo
07. My Girl Shirl
08. Soulful Kiddy
09. A Portrait of Jennie
10. Cecile

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 2
01. Jeannine
02. Pure D. Funk
03. Kimyas
04. When Sonny Gets Blue
05. Early Morning Blues
06. Early Bird
07. Elgy
08. Stablemates
09. Steppin' Out
10. Social Call
11. An Evening in Casablanca
12. Satellite

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 3
01. Fuego
02. Bup a Loup
03. Funky Mama
04. Low Life
05. Lament
06. Amen
07. Hip Strut
08. Minor Apprehension
09. Greasy
10. Sweet Cakes
11. Davis Cup

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 4
01. The Third
02. Contour
03. When Your Lover Has Gone
04. Dig
05. Round Midnight

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 5
01. Witchcraft
02. Here Am I
03. Devil Whip
04. Bronze Dance
05. Clarion Calls
06. The Injuns
07. Tis (Theme)
08. You're My Thrill
09. The Long TwoFour
10. Hastings Street Bounce
11. Yourna

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 6
01. Speculation
02. Over the Rainbow
03. Nica's Tempo
04. Blue Concept
05. Little Niles
06. Sans Souci
07. I Remember Clifford
08. All Mornin' Long
09. They Can't Take That Away from Me
10. Our Delight

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 7
01. Say You're Mine
02. Duke's Mixture
03. Each Time I Think of You
04. The Cat Walk
05. Cute
06. Hello Bright Sunflower
07. All Day Long
08. Slim Jim
09. Say Listen
10. A. T.

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 8
01. The Stanley Stomper
02. Cool Aid
03. Pairing Off
04. Suddenly It's Spring

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 9
01. Ghana
02. Little Boy Blue
03. Gate City
04. Lex
05. Bo
06. My Girl Shirl
07. Our Delight
08. Our Love Is Here to Stay
09. Foster Dulles
10. Together We Wail
11. What's New
12. But George

Milestones of a Jazz Legend - Donald Byrd, Vol. 10
01. Hush
02. I'm a Fool to Want You
03. Jorgie's
04. Shangri-La
05. 6 M's
06. Requiem
07. Pentecostal Feeling
08. Night Flower
09. Nai Nai
10. French Spice
11. Free Form



The American trumpeter Donald Byrd (1932-2003) was one of the most important
representatives of hardbop and, like his colleagues Miles Davis and freddie
hubbard, succeeded in redirecting his productions towards funk and soul, thereby
fi nding a new audience and conquering the Pop charts, when Rock began pushing
Jazz into a niche at the end of the 60s. The 2nd hip hop Generation sampled his
albums 'Black Byrd', 'Street Lady" and his productions for the Blackbyrds.

He was also actively involved in projects like Guru's Jazzmatazz. Byrd came from
Detroit and was a revered member of the Motor city's Jazz scene, where he
learned his craft alongside colleagues such as Kenny Burrell, Tommy flanagan and
Pepper Adams, all of whom also moved to New York later on. he also enjoyed a
thorough academic education and career, which was always of importance for him
as a professor at major us universities. in 1955 he moved to the Big Apple and
almost immediately replaced cliff ord Brown, who had recently died under tragic
circumstances, in Art Blakey's Jazz Messenger.

In the following years, he played on albums by almost all of the well-known and
important colleagues of the time: from Thelonious Monk to John coltrane and
sonny Rollins. in addition to leading his own ensembles with Gigi Gryce and old
friends from Detroit, he had a quintet with Pepper Adams from 1958-1961 and
regularly recorded for Blue Note. Byrd showed his touch for extraordinary
talents on piano with collaboration with Duke Pearson and herbie hancock,
endorsing the latter in the early stages of his career and also being the one to
recommend hancock's collaboration with Miles Davis.

Interestingly, the Byrd composition 'Pentecostal Feelin' from the album 'Free
Form', which completes this collection of the most important recordings of
Byrd's early work, sounds like a blue print for the fi rst hit for the Blue Note
label, Lee Morgan's 'Sidewinder', which was to be released three years later. In
the Nineties Byrd returned to the hardbop of his youth and also taught many of
the Jazz-stars of today as a professor at various universities. 

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