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The Blackbyrds / City Life
Track listing
"Rock Creek Park" (Joe Hall, Keith Killgo, Kevin Toney, Orville Saunders, Stephen Johnson) 4:35
"Thankful 'Bout Yourself" (Orville Saunders) 5:11
- "City Life" (Kevin Toney) 5:22
- "All I Ask" (Kevin Toney) 3:50
- "Happy Music" (Donald Byrd) 4:32
- "Love So Fine" (Joe Hall) 5:00
- "Flying High" (Keith Killgo) 3:29
- "Hash and Eggs" (Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell) 5:06
The Blackbyrds -Vocals
Donald Byrd - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Vocals
Joe Hall - Bass
Keith Killgo - Drums
Orville Saunders -Guitar
Kevin Toney - Keyboards
Stephen Johnson - Saxophone
Recorded 1975 at Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA
sleeve design: cover art by Stewart Daniels
Label: Fantasy Records / 1975
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Life_(The_Blackbyrds_album)
Cover of the first studio album released by Credence Clearwater Rivival in 1968. The band included: John Fogerty on lead guitar and vocals; Tom Fogerty on rhythm guitar; Stu Cook on bass guitar and; Doug Clifford on drums. The group played a real Southern Rock Style of Rock and Roll.
Before releasing their first album the group had played for years
as the "Golliwogs". In 1967 Saul Zaentz, owner of Fantasy Records, offered the band an chance to record a full-length album on condition that they change their name. Fogerty took charge of the group artistically writing all of their hit records and assuming the roles of singer, guitarist, producer and arranger of nearly everything that appeared on Creedence's seven studio albums.
This original album cover was seen and photographed on display at the 50th anniversary celebration of the "Summer of Love" at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
This is not a fantasy: Earl Hines' hands scan piano in vast swaths, Ferlinghetti reads beat poetry in The Cellar,
www.answers.com/topic/poetry-readings-in-the-cellar
Lucy Reed intones on translucent red, Gerry Mulligan stakes out new turf with trumpeter Chet Baker, Cal Tjader hammers mallets in hot mambo rhythm, Desmond and Dave play like crazy, and Greek Dance enhances the whole.
All for one ninety-eight! Fantasy Records Hi-Fi Sampler is a disc-shaped time-capsule from 1957. Caught just before records went stereophonic, the back of the album boasts Stereophonic Recorded Tapes available. Stereo cartridges and records began to be sold in large numbers in 1958. I'm betting lots of folks forgot this monaural release in all the excitement. But from the time I heard Uncle John Rockne's copy, I never forgot it. It's not just the translucent red plastic vinyl--though that was exotic to me--it was the chance to hear Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan in their formative stages, to hear Earl Hines pounding out an elaborate boogie-woogie piano solo, to be introduced to Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
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without whom Allen Ginsberg and the Beats might have fizzled out. There were things that struck me as bizarre, particularly the Baldwin Organ rendition of "Moonlight In Vermont," by Les Strand.
Yet, for all the solid recordings from these major talents, the prime reason I remember this disc is Lucy Reed's definitive version of "It's a Lazy Afternoon." What can I say about her voice? Think of a light charcoal-gray velour. Now imagine sliding your fingers across the fabric. This chanteuse, this "Singing Reed," is beckoning to me from a "place that's quiet, 'cept for daisies running riot, and there's no one passing by it to see. Come spend this lazy afternoon with me."
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-SYRE...
My thirteen-year-old limbic brain ran wild with the possibilities. Perhaps it's fitting that Lucy Reed embodied my mythical Siren's voice: It turns out that "It's A Lazy Afternoon" is from a Broadway musical
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Apple_(musical)
about the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer.
But, wait. There's more. It seems some wonderful studio sound technician managed to enhance Lucy Reed's voice by completely acoustic means. At least that's my guess. Perhaps a secondary microphone captured early reflection from a nearby wood surface, or a small cabinet close to her voice was utilized. Even if it was accidental, the result is at once subtle and intimate. She could be singing to you in your own room.
Finally, the kicker: All these years I had admired the restraint and finesse of the jazz musicians accompanying Reed, particularly the pianist. In researching this blog entry, I was stunned to learn the pianist is none other than the great Bill Evans,
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=14599
one of the most influential and admired players of modern jazz. He was virtually unknown at the time of this recording. Reed went out of her way to make sure the young pianist was included on the date. In this way, Lucy Reed,
who sadly never achieved much fame outside of Chicago, contributed to Evans' career, and sweetly enhanced jazz history.
www.scpr.org/blogs/offramp/2011/04/20/2877/peter-stenshoe...
Fantasy Records on blue vinyl (#8073). 1962 stereo repackaging of Fantasy's 'Dave Brubeck Trio' from 1949. Dave once told me during an interview that he'd help start Fantasy Records with $600 of his own money back in the 40's
Basically a Jazz Saxophonists who accompanied so many artists in the Pop world as well as with many Top Jazz artists.
Playing the Tenor Saxophone on this single just reeks of pop Jazz.
Cal Tjader
Real Name: Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr.
Born 16 July 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Died 05 May 1982, Manila, Philipines, was an American Latin jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform the music of Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America for the rest of his life.
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Charlie Byrd
Real Name: Charles Lee Byrd
Born : September 16, 1925 in Suffolk, Virginia.
Died : December 02, 1999 in Annapolis, Maryland, was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.
Byrd played fingerstyle on a classical guitar.
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Cal Tjader And Charlie Byrd – Tambu
Label: Fantasy – F-9453
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1974
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Samba, Smooth Jazz, Easy Listening, Fusion, Bossanova, Latin Jazz
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Tracklist
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A1 Tambu (Tombo In 7/4)
A2 Tereza My Love
A3 Black Narcissus
A4 Sad Eyes
B1 My Cherie Amour
B2 San Francisco River
B3 Samba De Oneida
B4 Don't Lend Your Guitar To Anyone
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Credits
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Bass – John Heard
Electric Bass – Joe Byrd
Guitar – Charlie Byrd
Percussion – Mayuto Correa
Percussion, Drums – Dick Berk, Mike Stephans
Piano – Mike Wolff
Vibraphone – Cal Tjader
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