Donald Byrd - Live at Montreux 1973 being released

[felser]

First ever issue of this material on December 9.  I am semi-interested, will spring for the CD.  On the one hand, you have the Mizell Bros. present.  On the other hand, you have Nathan Davis (!) and Henry Franklin.

http://news.theurbanmusicscene.com/2022/11/donald-byrd-live-cookin-with-blue-note-at-montreux/

 

[jazzbo]

Yes, this is an interesting new release. I pre-ordered it via cdjapan. Universal is also reissuing a handful of other Byrd dates as UHQCD. 

 

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https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/person/700289691?order=new&opt.include_eoa=1&utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person-700289691

 

[ CDA ] Live: Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux [SHM-CD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /2600yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCQ-1181?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCQ-1181

 

[ CDA ] I'm Tryin' To Get Home [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45068?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45068

 

[ CDA ] Free Form [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45069?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45069

 

[ CDA ] Mustang! [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45070?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45070

 

[ CDA ] Blackjack [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45071?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45071

 

[ CDA ] Slow Drag [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45072?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45072

 

[ CDA ] Electric Byrd [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45073?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45073

 

[ CDA ] Ethiopian Nights [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45074?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45074

 

[ CDA ] Places And Spaces [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45075?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45075

 

[ CDA ] Caricatures [UHQCD]  | Release: December 09, 2022 /1800yen

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCU-45076?utm_source=MAIL&utm_medium=text-artistmail&utm_campaign=Donald%20Byrd-20221104-person_prod-UCCU-45076

 

[Dub Modal]

Good news. I dig Byrd and the Mizell Bros. 

[Rooster_Ties]

First track…

 

[Mark Stryker]

Video of this concert has long circulated. 

 

 

 

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, felser said:

First ever issue of this material on December 9.  I am semi-interested, will spring for the CD.  On the one hand, you have the Mizell Bros. present.  On the other hand, you have Nathan Davis (!) and Henry Franklin.

http://news.theurbanmusicscene.com/2022/11/donald-byrd-live-cookin-with-blue-note-at-montreux/

 

I'm vacillating!! 

[felser]

$11.98 on Amazon for the CD, so I'll take the leap.

[danasgoodstuff]

I thought this was the same stuff they made available for streaming and/or download awhile back, no?

[CJ Shearn]

2 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

I thought this was the same stuff they made available for streaming and/or download awhile back, no?

Indeed.  I'm in.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Not a fan of this, I'll pass.

[Rooster_Ties]

I’m usually a hard-pass on anything with the Mizells — at least definitely as far as studio stuff.

But I’m gonna see how this sounds when it’s all streamable — and I’ll bet I’ll end up getting it in the long run (probably six months after it comes out).

[JSngry]

How much was the rental for that gong?

 

The big one? 

[Eric]

6 hours ago, bresna said:

Not a fan of this, I'll pass.

Same here.  I embrace most places with the funk/fusion thing going on, but this sounds pretty stale.

[felser]

The second cut sounds really good to me, and even "Black Byrd" is looser than the studio version.  I'm in.

[mjazzg]

On the evidence of those YouTubes I'm definitely in for this one, that second cut is just too good to miss out on

[sidewinder]

14 hours ago, bresna said:

Not a fan of this, I'll pass.

I’m inclined to agree. My view of Byrd hasn’t changed since ‘75-76 when I first heard this Byrd/Mizell stuff - catastrophic drop in quality into the 70s. Compared to stuff like ‘Slow Drag’ from a few years earlier, I lost interest. Not through lack of trying to like it though.

That synth on the 2nd video sounds like a souped-up stylophone !

Edited November 6, 2022 by sidewinder

[Brad]

16 hours ago, bresna said:

Not a fan of this, I'll pass.

Add one more to the list. 

[AllenLowe]

oi. Another guy trying to do a Miles Davis. Byrd in particular sounds like a high school kid trying to play funky.

[sidewinder]

11 hours ago, JSngry said:

How much was the rental for that gong?

Freight costs on the 747 must have been off the scale.

[soulpope]

Interested solely in Nathan Davis here ....

[barnaba.siegel]

Oh my, that's a treasure... And after a deeper thought I'd say it's quite SENSATIONAL. I checked through his discography and it turns out that Donald Byrd have never ever released a live album under his name! (pls correct me if I'm wrong).

I guess he was a "I-don't-like-live-albums" kind of guy, especially after reading this piece from Don Was press release: 

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Don Was, President, Blue Note Records: “Shortly after Mr. Byrd’s passing in 2013, we got an email from the noted British music icon, Gilles Peterson, inquiring about a legendary performance from 1973’s Montreux Jazz Festival. Inexplicably, the tapes had been tucked away in the Blue Note vaults.

Well, everything comes together for me now.

 

(Leaving the investigation) I'm quite thrilled about this album, tho I was never a huge fun of his Mitzell era. I enjoy the majority of transitions from classic post-bop jazz to soul/funk/rock driven electric version of this music, but with Mitzell's? I don't dig their singing and harmonies, as well their taste in types of synthesizers sounds. But this live version of "Black Byrd" is really promising, I hope the raw live atmosphere will take away those studio detail I don't like.

[jazzbo]

It's untrue that Byrd never was on a released live album under his name. There are at least 3 by the group with Pepper Adams, and there's live Parisian releases. . . .

[mikeweil]

Donald Byrd live:

Second volume was issued of the first two. The last one was the co-led Byrd/Adams group.

[barnaba.siegel]

Good to know, will add those to my to-hear list.

Still - it's a bit odd to me.

[andybleaden]

i had some rough cuts of this a few years ago

 

now sounds a lot brigther