Donald Byrd - Black Byrd
Released - 1973
Recording and Session Information
The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA, April 3, 1972
Fonce Mizell, trumpet, vocals; Donald Byrd, flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals; Roger Glenn, flute, alto flute, sax; Joe Sample, piano, electric piano; Fred Perren, electric piano, synthesizer, vocals; Dean Parks, guitar; Wilton Felder, electric bass; Harvey Mason, drums; Bobbye Porter Hall, percussion; Larry Mizell, vocals, arranger.
11249 Mr. Thomas
The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA, April 4, 1972
Fonce Mizell, trumpet, vocals; Donald Byrd, flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals; Roger Glenn, flute, alto flute, sax; Joe Sample, piano, electric piano; Fred Perren, electric piano, synthesizer, vocals; Dean Parks, guitar; Wilton Felder, electric bass; Harvey Mason, drums; Bobbye Porter Hall, percussion; Larry Mizell, vocals, arranger.
11246 Flight-Time
The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA, November 24, 1972
Fonce Mizell, trumpet, vocals; Donald Byrd, flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals; Roger Glenn, flute, alto flute, sax; Joe Sample, piano, electric piano; Fred Perren, electric piano, synthesizer, vocals; David T. Walker, guitar; Chuck Rainey, electric bass; Harvey Mason, drums; Stephanie Spruill, congas, tambourine; Larry Mizell, vocals, arranger.
11250 Sky High
11247 Black Byrd
11251 Slop Jar Blues
11248 Love's So Far Away
11252 Where Are We Going
Track Listing
| Side One | ||
| Title | Author | Recording Date |
| Flight Time | Larry Mizell | April 4 1972 |
| Black Byrd | Larry Mizell | November 24 1972 |
| Love's So Far Away | Larry Mizell | November 24 1972 |
| Side Two | ||
| Mr. Thomas | Larry Mizell, Warren Jordan | April 3 1972 |
| Sky High | Larry Mizell | November 24 1972 |
| Slop Jar Blues | Larry Mizell | November 24 1972 |
| Where Are We Going? | Larry Mizell, Larry Gordon | November 24 1972 |
Liner Notes
When you are a super-jazz great whose name is Donald Byrd and have been acclaimed as one of the great jazz trumpeters in the business and you are still hearing the raves from your last album, "Ethiopian Nights," you wonder what you will do for an encore. This within itself is a supreme compliment which is reserved only for a performer of classical dimensions.
The Blue Note release of Donald's new LP tagged "Black Byrd" is the satisfying answer. Since the total involvement of Byrd in Afro-American music, it is no surprise to the many fans that this great jazz artist would revitalize these beats and traditional elements with the new magnetic sounds that a capable musician like Byrd can derive from the powerful new rhythms and sonorities developed for today's jazz sounds.
Especially noticeable exciting rhythms and Afro-American beats are heard with the tunes "Flight Time," "Black Byrd" and "Mr. Thomas." With "Black Byrd," Donald Byrd puts new vitality with a blending of vocal voices augmented with avant-garde elements used in his own individual manner.
Donald Byrd is referred to as the musician com laude. He continues to research and comes up with a new musical project each year hoping that with his knowledge he can pass on to the black man his findings of his true heritage and history.
Donald Byrd has a magic know-how of the blending of instruments and in this LP you will become cognizant of a vital, intense and enthralling power like on other music you have heard and it all adds up to one important factor. Donald Byrd is a man with a genius for sound.
It is through his music that you really get to know this man. With the tune "Love Is So Far Away," what you hear is a beautiful piece of music with feeling, drive and smoothness.
Donald Byrd has a strong solid background in jazz. He was actively involved with the world acclaimed Marshall Stearns Jazz Collection, a compilation of over 25,000 albums that trace the history of jazz in this country.
The jazz tunes heard in the album will not only delight the ears of music lovers but will be a sheer delight for dancers and choreographers who in the last years have been drawn to jazz not only for the musical and rhythmical qualities but for the manifestation of a life style. With this type of modern jazz music can become dance works concerning black pride, themes from life with ever increasing freedom of movement.
Donald Byrd makes it clear that he is deeply into jazz and grooved the public ear for more than twenty years.
Gertrude Gipson
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