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  (2003)

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

Label:  Blue Note Records

Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Witchcraft  (8:29)

 2.  Here Am I  (8:25)

 3.  Devil Whip  (4:42)

 4.  Bronze Dance  (6:43)

 5.  Clarion Calls  (5:41)

 6.  The Injuns  (6:11)

Personnel:

Donald Byrd:  Trumpet

Charlie Rouse:  Tenor Saxophone

Pepper Adams:  Baritone Saxophone

Walter Davis, Jr.:  Piano

Sam Jones:  Bass

Art Taylor:  Drums

Byrd In Hand is an album by Donald Byrd, originally released in 1960 by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on February 3, 2003 by Blue Note Records, featuring Charlie Rouse, Pepper Adams, Walter Davis, Jr., Sam Jones, and Art Taylor.