Donald Byrd

Artist:  Donald Byrd

Birth Name:  Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II

Born:  December 9, 1932.  Detroit, Michigan, USA

Died:  February 4, 2013 (Aged 80).  Dover, Delaware, USA

Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Jazz Funk, Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bop, Trumpet Jazz 

Occupation:  Musician

Instruments:  Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Vocals

Donald Byrd was an American Jazz Trumpet.  He was best known as one of the only Bebop Jazz Musicians who successfully pioneered the Funk and Soul Genres while remaining a Jazz Artist.  He was a sideman for many other Jazz Musicians of his generation, also as a Bandleader.

Title:  Byrd In Hand/Davis Cup  (2010)

Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Jazz Funk, Soul Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bop, Trumpet Jazz 

Label:  Poll Winners Records

Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Witchcraft  (8:29)

 2.  Here I Am  (8:25)

 3.  Devil Whip  (4:42)

 4.  Bronze Dance  (6:43)

 5.  Clarion Calls  (5:42)

 6.  The Injuns  (6:09)

 7.  Smake It  (5:08)

 8.  Loodle-Lot  (6:00)

 9.  Sweetness  (8:15)

10. Rhumba Nhumba  (7:01)

11. Minor Mind  (6:28)

12. Millie's Delight  (5:07)

Personnel:

Byrd In Hand (1959):

Donald Byrd:  Trumpet

Charlie Rouse:  Tenor Saxophone

Pepper Adams:  Baritone Saxophone

Walter Davis Jr.:  Piano

Sam Jones:  Bass

Art Taylor:  Drums

Davis Cup : (1959):

Donald Byrd:  Trumpet

Jackie McLean:  Alto Saxophone

Walter Davis Jr.:  Piano

Sam Jones:  Bass

Art Taylor:  Drums

Byrd In Hand/Davis Cup is 2 LP on 1 CD from the original classic album Byrd In Hard, which received a 5-star rating in Down Beat Magazine, included a Bonus another complete LP Davis Cup by Donald Byrd, originally released in 1959, remastered and reissued on September 20, 2010 by Poll Winners Records, featuring Charlie Rouse, Pepper Adams, Walter Davis Jr., Sam Jones, Art Taylor and Jackie McLean.