Donaldson Toussaint
Donald Byrd Quintet at the Olympia ’58
William Claxton: Donald Byrd on the “A” Train, New York City, 1959
PHOTO William Claxton
Donald Byrd plays a pocket trumpet during the recording session for his Fuego album Oct 1959
Photo Francis Wolff
Donald Byrd – Byrd In Paris – Vol. 2 (1958)
Donald Byrd
Trumpeter
Donaldson
Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II was an American jazz and rhythm and blues
trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation,
Byrd was best known as one of the only bebop jazz ... Wikipedia
Died: February 4, 2013
Songs
| Cristo Redentor | 1963 | A New Perspective |
| Dominoes | 1975 | Places and Spaces |
| Places and Spaces | 1975 | Places and Spaces |
| Love Has Come Around | 1981 | Love Byrd |
| Flight Time |
| Think Twice | 1975 | Stepping into Tomorrow |
| Wind Parade | 1975 | Places and Spaces |
| Black Byrd | 1973 | Black Byrd |
| Change | 1975 | Places and Spaces |
| You and the Music | ||
| Stepping into Tomorrow | 1975 | Stepping into Tomorrow |
| Stella by Starlight | ||
| Street Lady | 1973 | Street Lady |
| Lansana's Priestess | ||
| Curro's |
Albums
A New Perspective
1963
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Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor. Byrd (t), Mobley (ts), Best (vib), Burrrell (g), Hancock (p), Warren (b), Humphries (d), Perkinson (vcl).
Born
in Detroit, Michigan, Byrd attended Cass Technical High School. He
performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After
playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force,
he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music.
Playing career
While still at the Manhattan School he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, replacing Clifford Brown. In 1955, he recorded with Jackie McLean and Mal Waldron. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956 he performed with a wide variety of highly regarded jazz musicians, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk. In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend Eric Dolphy in Paris just two weeks before Dolphy's tragic death from insulin shock.
In the 1970s, he moved away from his previous hard-bop jazz base and began to record jazz fusion, Jazz-funk, soul-Jazz, and rhythm and blues. Teaming up with the Mizell Brothers, they produced Black Byrd, which was enormously successful and became Blue Note Records' highest-ever selling album. The Mizell Brothers follow-up production albums for Byrd, Places and Spaces, Steppin' Into Tomorrow and Street Lady were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as Us3.
In 1993, Byrd teamed up with Gang Starr MC Guru for the track "Loungin'" on the Jazzmatazz project.
As a music educator
He has taught music at Rutgers University, the Hampton Institute, New York University, Howard University, and Oberlin College. In 1974 he created the Blackbyrds, a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits including "Rock Creek Park", "Walking In Rhythm" and "Blackbyrds Theme".
Byrd lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Playing career
While still at the Manhattan School he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, replacing Clifford Brown. In 1955, he recorded with Jackie McLean and Mal Waldron. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956 he performed with a wide variety of highly regarded jazz musicians, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk. In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend Eric Dolphy in Paris just two weeks before Dolphy's tragic death from insulin shock.
In the 1970s, he moved away from his previous hard-bop jazz base and began to record jazz fusion, Jazz-funk, soul-Jazz, and rhythm and blues. Teaming up with the Mizell Brothers, they produced Black Byrd, which was enormously successful and became Blue Note Records' highest-ever selling album. The Mizell Brothers follow-up production albums for Byrd, Places and Spaces, Steppin' Into Tomorrow and Street Lady were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as Us3.
In 1993, Byrd teamed up with Gang Starr MC Guru for the track "Loungin'" on the Jazzmatazz project.
As a music educator
He has taught music at Rutgers University, the Hampton Institute, New York University, Howard University, and Oberlin College. In 1974 he created the Blackbyrds, a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits including "Rock Creek Park", "Walking In Rhythm" and "Blackbyrds Theme".
Byrd lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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