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Charlie Byrd • Blues For Night People

 



 Artist Biography by Richard S. Ginell
Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit -- applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences. Born into a musical family, Byrd experienced his first brush with greatness while a teenager in France during World War II, playing with his idol Django Reinhardt. After some postwar gigs with Sol Yaged, Joe Marsala and Freddie Slack, Byrd temporarily abandoned jazz to study classical guitar with Sophocles Papas in 1950 and Andrés Segovia in 1954. However he re-emerged later in the decade gigging around the Washington D.C. area in jazz settings, often splitting his sets into distinct jazz and classical segments. He started recording for Savoy as a leader in 1957, and also recorded with the Woody Herman Band in 1958-59. A tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1961, proved to be a revelation, for it was in Brazil that Byrd discovered the emerging bossa nova movement. Once back in D.C., he played some bossa nova tapes to Stan Getz, who then convinced Verve's Creed Taylor to record an album of Brazilian music with himself and Byrd. That album, Jazz Samba, became a pop hit in 1962 on the strength of the single "Desafinado" and launched the bossa nova wave in North America. Thanks to the bossa nova, several albums for Riverside followed, including the defining Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros, and he was able to land a major contract with Columbia, though the records from that association often consisted of watered-down easy listening pop. In 1973, he formed the group Great Guitars with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel and also that year, wrote an instruction manual for the guitar that has become widely used. From 1974 onward, Byrd recorded for the Concord Jazz label in a variety of settings, including sessions with Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank. He died December 2, 1999 after a long bout with cancer.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-byrd-mn0000204968/biography

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 Biografía del artista por Richard S. Ginell
De buen gusto, discreto y melódico, Charlie Byrd tuvo dos logros notables en su haber: aplicar técnicas de guitarra clásica acústica al jazz y a la música popular y ayudar a introducir la música brasileña al público norteamericano masivo. Nacido en el seno de una familia musical, Byrd experimentó su primer contacto con la grandeza mientras era un adolescente en Francia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, jugando con su ídolo Django Reinhardt. Después de algunos conciertos de posguerra con Sol Yaged, Joe Marsala y Freddie Slack, Byrd abandonó temporalmente el jazz para estudiar guitarra clásica con Sophocles Papas en 1950 y Andrés Segovia en 1954. Sin embargo, resurgió más tarde en la década tocando en el área de Washington D.C. en escenarios de jazz, a menudo dividiendo sus sets en distintos segmentos de jazz y clásicos. Comenzó a grabar para Savoy como líder en 1957, y también grabó con la Woody Herman Band en 1958-59. Una gira por Sudamérica bajo la égida del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos en 1961, resultó ser una revelación, pues fue en Brasil donde Byrd descubrió el emergente movimiento bossa nova. Una vez de vuelta en D.C., tocó algunas cintas de bossa nova a Stan Getz, quien luego convenció a Verve's Creed Taylor para que grabara un álbum de música brasileña con él y Byrd. Ese álbum, Jazz Samba, se convirtió en un éxito pop en 1962 con la fuerza del sencillo "Desafinado" y lanzó la ola de bossa nova en Norteamérica. Gracias a la bossa nova, le siguieron varios álbumes para Riverside, incluyendo el definitorio Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros, y pudo conseguir un importante contrato con Columbia, aunque los discos de esa asociación a menudo consistían en pop de fácil escucha diluido. En 1973, formó el grupo Great Guitars con Herb Ellis y Barney Kessel y también ese año, escribió un manual de instrucciones para la guitarra que ha llegado a ser ampliamente utilizado. A partir de 1974, Byrd grabó para el sello Concord Jazz en diversos escenarios, incluyendo sesiones con Laurindo Almeida y Bud Shank. Murió el 2 de diciembre de 1999 después de una larga lucha contra el cáncer.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-byrd-mn0000204968/biography


Tracklist:
Blues For Night People -
A1 - First Show -
A2 - 2:00 A. M. -
A3 - 4 O'Clock Funk -
B1 - Blues My Naughtie Sweetie Taught Me -
B2 - Blue Prelude -
B3 - This Can't Be Love -
B4 - Jive At Five -



Credits:
    Bass – Keeter Betts
    Design [Cover] – Portrait Productions
    Drums – Gus Johnson
    Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
    Guitar [Spanish] – Charlie Byrd
    Supervised By – Ozzie Cadena

Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1957


Label: Savoy Records
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bop, Swing
https://www.discogs.com/master/view/291491










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4 comments:

  1. Got my new computer up and running, so I can finally check back in!
    Thanks for the Byrd.

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