Donald Byrd - Byrd In Paris (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Donald Byrd's passing has just been confirmed. The son of a Detroit preacher, the legendary trumpeter was no more than 5-6 years older than me, a 16-year-old high-school student (and, like Donald, a PK) permitted by his parents to explore a jazz club for the first time. Paris presented little threat to a "foreign" visitor–other than the familiar Parisian "temptations" and those "wild and crazy" French drivers (I learned to be especially careful while owners of the "Deux Cheaveaux"–the sardine-can, bargain-basement, basic Citroens–were running the streets–though much later I came to question who was in greater danger: the pedestrian or the driver. It was only after I leased one of these "toy cars" (put out of its misery by Citroen in the early '90s) and took it on a drive from Paris to Limoges that I got over my love affair with it: upon meeting a truck on the 2-way highway, the wind draft created by the velocity of our two vehicles was sufficient to blow the canvas roof off the car! –literally!) But back to the night when I first heard and met Donald Byrd, who was blowing off the roof (figuratively) of the Left Bank Club known as "Au Chat qui Peche."

TRACKLIST

1. Donald Byrd - Dear Old Stockholm (Remastered)
2. Donald Byrd - Paul's Pal (Remastered)
3. Donald Byrd - Flute Blues (Remastered)
4. Donald Byrd - Ray's Idea (Remastered)
5. Donald Byrd - The Blues Walk (Remastered)



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