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Donald Byrd – Electric Byrd
Donald Byrd
Electric Byrd
Style: Jazz
Label: Blue Note
Catalog Number: BST 84349
Released: 1970, 70's
Played by our good friend Victor Rodriguez at last summer’s listening sessions… Electric Byrd is the great Howard University educator/trumpeter’s most psychedelic outing obviously influenced by Miles Davis’ seminal electric Bitches Brew period. Of course, Byrd does his own thing thing here with backing from Ron Carter and an infusion of latin jazz from legends Airto Moreira and Hermeto Pascoal. Atmospheric, textural, and filled with tape echo’d solos, the tracks fuse together elements of funk, Brazilian music, and hard-bop to form immensely deep grooves that get better with each listen. Check Andy Beta’s deep dive writeup on Donald Byrd here.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Fusion / Latin Jazz / Psychedelic
Tracklist:
A1 Estavanico
A2 Essence
B1 Xibaba
B2 The Dude
Credits:
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Jerry Dodgion
Art Direction – Frank Gauna
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet – Pepper Adams
Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Mickey Roker
Electric Piano – Duke Pearson
Flute – Hermeto Pascoal (tracks: B1)
Guitar – Wally Richardson
Liner Notes – Nat Hentoff
Percussion – Airto Moreira
Photography By – Arthur McGee
Producer – Duke Pearson
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Clarinet – Frank Foster
Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Lew Tabackin
Trombone – Bill Campbell
Trumpet – Donald Byrd
