Donald Byrd • Up With

 

Review
by Scott Yanow
Trumpeter Donald Byrd took a brief vacation from Blue Note to record this one album for Verve. The music is mostly pretty forgettable despite such top sidemen as tenors Stanley Turrentine and Jimmy Heath, pianist Herbie Hancock, and guitarist Kenny Burrell. Byrd mostly sticks to current pop tunes, and most of the songs utilize a rather average vocal group listed as "The Donald Byrd Singers." The arrangements by Claus Ogerman, Byrd, and Hancock are unimaginative and these renditions of "House of the Rising Sun," "My Babe," and a few of Hancock's originals are quite forgettable. A lesser effort.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/up-with-donald-byrd-mw0000744281

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Reseña
por Scott Yanow
El trompetista Donald Byrd se tomó unas breves vacaciones de Blue Note para grabar este álbum para Verve. La música es en su mayor parte bastante olvidable a pesar de contar con músicos de primera fila como los tenores Stanley Turrentine y Jimmy Heath, el pianista Herbie Hancock y el guitarrista Kenny Burrell. Byrd se ciñe sobre todo a temas pop actuales, y la mayoría de las canciones utilizan un grupo vocal bastante mediocre que figura como "The Donald Byrd Singers". Los arreglos de Claus Ogerman, Byrd y Hancock son poco imaginativos y estas interpretaciones de "House of the Rising Sun", "My Babe" y algunos originales de Hancock son bastante olvidables. Un esfuerzo menor.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/up-with-donald-byrd-mw0000744281

Tracks:
A1 - Blind Man, Blind Man
Written-By – Hancock

A2 - Boom Boom
Written-By – Hooker

A3 - House Of The Rising Sun    4:05
A4 - See See Rider
Written-By – Rainey

A5 - Cantaloupe Island
Written-By – Hancock

B1 - Bossa
Written-By – Byrd

B2 - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Written-By – Trad.

B3 - You've Been Talkin' 'Bout Me Baby
Written-By – Garnett, Rivera, Hirsch

B4 - My Babe
Written-By – Dixon


Credits:
    Arranged By, Conductor – Claus Ogerman (pistas: A1 to A4, B3, B4), Donald Byrd (pistas: B1, B2), Herbie Hancock (pistas: A5)
    Bass – Bob Cranshaw (pistas: A1 to A4, B3, B4), Ron Carter (pistas: A5 to B2)
    Design [Cover] – Michael Malatak
    Drums – Grady Tate
    Engineer – Phil Ramone (pistas: A1 to A4, B3, B4), Rudy Van Gelder (pistas: A5 to B2)
    Engineer [Director Of Engineering For MGM] – Val Valentin
    Engineer [Remix] – Rudy Van Gelder
    Guitar – Kenny Burrell
    Leader, Trumpet – Donald Byrd
    Liner Notes – Jack Maher
    Percussion – Candido (pistas: A5 to B2)
    Piano – Herbie Hancock
    Producer – Creed Taylor
    Tenor Saxophone – Jimmy Heath (pistas: A1 to A4, B3, B4), Stanley Turrentine (pistas: A5 to B2)
    Vocals – The Donald Byrd Singers (pistas: A1 to A5, B2 to B4)

Notes:
The Donald Byrd Singers are two groups: three females (A1 to A4, B3, B4) and two male and two female voices (A5, B2)
A1 to A4, B3, B4 Recorded at A. & R. Studios, New York City November 3, 4 & 6, 1964.
A5 to B2 Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. December 16, 1964.

Label:    Verve Records – V6-8609
Country:    US
Released:    1965
Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Soul-Jazz, Easy Listening
https://www.discogs.com/release/688136-Donald-Byrd-Up-With-Donald-Byrd

 

 

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