Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Blackbyrds - The Blackbyrds



Year : 1974
Label : Fantasy
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk

The debut album of an american rhythm section produced by Larry Mizell, formed & supervised by Donald Byrd for six students of music department from the Howard University, playing Jazz Funk fusion. It's a typical Mizell Brothers production, a music conceived for dancefloor based on Funk/Soul arrangements, as was done for for the Donald Byrd & Bobbi Humphrey (Fancy Dancer) albums, recorded during the seventies. Most of the tracks include original compositions of Donald Byrd such as "Do It, Fluid" or "Funky Junkie", Larry Mizell's contribution with "Life Styles" and Allan Barnes with "Summer Love".

MUSICIANS : Allan Barnes - soprano & tenor saxophone - Kevin Toney & Orville Saunders - keyboards, melodica, synthesizer - Steve Johnson - sax, flute - Joe Hall & David Williams - bass - Keith Killgo - drums - Oscar Brashear - trumpet, flugelhorn - Ray Armando & Perk Jacobs - percussion
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