Donald Byrd’s ’70s records are awesome. Unlike most of his peers, Byrd made the transition to electric groove-based jazz successfully, and a big part of that success was his longtime association...
After 43 years, saxophonist Wayne Shorter has returned to the Blue Note roster. And his first album for the label since 1970’s Odyssey of Iska is the third in a series of live albums documenting...
Trumpeter Johnny Coles, born in Trenton, NJ in 1926, was an in-demand sideman from the 1950s to the 1970s. Though he got his start in R&B, he made a smooth transition to jazz, working with James Moody,...
As a work of pure music, Donald Byrd's A New Perspective is immaculate, one of the 1960s' most direct expressions of jazz as a connection to the spiritual plane next to John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme....
