Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II1932 -
American trumpet player
18'X24" oil on canvas
(One of) today's installment of Alphabets of Jazz is sultry funk-meister Donald Byrd. He got started as a Jazz Messenger, taking over after the untimely death of legendary trumpeter Clifford Brown (look for him in AOJ Vol.2). He made a bunch of fantastic albums but in the 70s he made Black Byrd which helped usher in a new stream of funky jazz which led to becomming one of Blue Note's highest selling albums...until some chick named Norah Jones came along and fucked everybody up.
You may also remember him from that album Blue Break Beats? No? Jesus, dude...go get that album. Anyway, that is where I first got introduced to him and it's full of all sorts of jazz funk nastiness.
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