Donald Byrd First Flight CD

First Flight Music

List Price	$12.98 (You save $3.39)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet
Label	Delmark
Orig Year	1955
All Time Sales Rank	155549
CD Universe Part number	1186893
Catalog number	407
Discs	1
Release Date	Sep 18, 1993
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Robert G. Koester
Recording Time	55 minutes
Personnel	Hank Jones Donald Byrd - trumpet Kenny Clarke - drums Frank Foster Barry Harris - piano Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone Bernard McKinney - euphonium Frank Gant

Donald Byrd First Flight Songs

	1.	Blues
	2.	Tortion Level
	3.	Woody 'N You
	4.	Dancing in the Dark
	5.	Parisian Thoroughfare
	6.	Yusef
	7.	Shaw 'Nuff

First Flight Music Review

Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

4 stars Early Byrd
This album was recorded in the summer of 1955 and is perhaps Byrd's first commercial recording. And what a debut! Byrd's playing is fluid and with great swing and conception. This sextet includes Barry Harris and Yusef Lateef and the group is well rehearsed with good charts. A highlight is Woody 'n You that uses the original arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band rather than the more common Miles Davis Chart. Excellent playing by all and a good example of early hard bop.
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