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:   Places And Spaces (Blue Note Classic Series) (2021)

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

Label:  Blue Note Records

Rating:  *****

Format:   LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Change (Makes You Wanna Hustle) (5:08)

 2.  Wind Parade (6:10)

 3.  (Fallin' Like) Dominoes) (4:33)

Side Two:

 1.  Places And Spaces (6:19)

 2.  You And Muse (5:22)

 3.  Night Whistle (3:43)

 4.  Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (4:36)

Personnel:

Donald Byrd:  Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Vocals

George Bohanon:  Trombone

Tyree Glenn, Jr.:  Tenor Saxophone

James Carter:  Whistle

Fonce Mitzell:  Trumpet, Clavichord, Vocals, Clavinet

Larry Mitzell:  Piano, Vocals

Craig McMullen:  Guitar

John Rowin:  Guitar

Skip Scarborough:  Piano

Larry Dunn:  Synthesizer

Chuck Rainy:  Bass

Mayuto Correa:  Percussion, Conga

Harvey Mason:  Drums

Kay Halth:  Vocals

King Errison:  Conga

Places And Spaces is an album by Donald Byrd, released in 1975 by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on November 19, 2021 by Blue Note Records.   Audiophile 180 Gram Vinyl.