Triploid
Black Heritage is (fusion) Donald Byrd
In the early 1970's, Donald Byrd, then, a hard-bop jazz trumpeter, hired the Mizell brothers as his producer (formerly of Motown). As partners, they put the word 'fusion' on Billboard's center stage for close to a decade. Today, fusion has been replaced with 'smooth jazz' as the genre. Their style was an amalgamation of jazz, R&B, and gospel-soul featuring Byrd's solo jazz trumpet. Byrd, of course, was ridiculed by the jazz community; but his success, helped trigger a mass exodus of that same community, which was determined to cash-in on the developing market of -- fusion. Blue Note, was the label.
I like this caricature, elongated style imagery that captures and represents, 'stompin, and finger-poppin good times' (remember those?).
This is the album cover from Donald Byrd's album, entitled: Donald Byrd and 125 Street, N.Y.C. (1979)
The artist is: Ernie Barnes (former NFL player, 1959-1966)
Black Heritage is (fusion) Donald Byrd
In the early 1970's, Donald Byrd, then, a hard-bop jazz trumpeter, hired the Mizell brothers as his producer (formerly of Motown). As partners, they put the word 'fusion' on Billboard's center stage for close to a decade. Today, fusion has been replaced with 'smooth jazz' as the genre. Their style was an amalgamation of jazz, R&B, and gospel-soul featuring Byrd's solo jazz trumpet. Byrd, of course, was ridiculed by the jazz community; but his success, helped trigger a mass exodus of that same community, which was determined to cash-in on the developing market of -- fusion. Blue Note, was the label.
I like this caricature, elongated style imagery that captures and represents, 'stompin, and finger-poppin good times' (remember those?).
This is the album cover from Donald Byrd's album, entitled: Donald Byrd and 125 Street, N.Y.C. (1979)
The artist is: Ernie Barnes (former NFL player, 1959-1966)