ByrdLand

Charlie Byrd: Byrdland 1966

High Flying with the trio, quartet & quintet

 

1. Meditation (Gimbel-Mendonca-Jobin) 3'15

2. Girl (Lennon-McCartney) 1'52

3. Samba de Orpheus (Bonfa) 4'40

4. I'll Be Around (Wilnder) 3'43

5. Work Song (Adderly-Brown) 2'52

B-side

6. Blues For China (Byrd-Macero) 5'37

7. Arabesque (Mancini) 2'03

8. Theme From Mr. Lucky (Mancini) 3'

9. It's So Peaceful In The Country (Wilder) 1'50

10. Manha de Carnaval (Bonfa) 3'

11. Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Ebb-Kander) 2'51

 

Charlie Byrd amplified classical guitar

Hal Posey trumpet

Teo Macero saxophone, producer

Joe Byrd bass

Bill Reichenbach drums

 

Cover art: John Berg

CBS 62958 - Published 1966

Bought the LP 18.4.1968 24 mk

 

This was my 4th jazz LP, bought it in 1968, and it was just because of the guitar.

There wasn't many jazz guitarists at that time:

Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Jim Hall, Herb Ellis and Barnie Kessel.

 

The playing technique of Byrd is a bit different form the other jazz guitarists. He played with his fingertips - the classical style and the sound of the guitar wasn't the sound of electric guitar.

 

Charlie Byrd (1925-1999) had success in the early 60's when he was on the Bossa Nova wave, when it was discovered by the American jazz musicians, specially Stan Getz who recorded the million seller album Jazz Samba (1963) and later

Getz - Guilberto (which I bouth later the same year).

Today this sounds very main stream entertainment, not jazz at all.

 

There's one interesting name in the list of the musicians: Teo Macero is playing saxophone! - He was the producer who worked with Miles Davis in Columbia in the 60's and 70's. Unfortunately he doesn't play any solo here, It would have been very interesting to hear him play something.

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