DONALD BYRD - Four Classic Albums (Byrd's Word / Byrd's Eye View / All Night Long / Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill)

AVID Jazz presents four classic Donald Byrd albums, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Byrd’s Word”; “Byrd’s Eye View”; “All Night Long” and “Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill”.Forget East Coast versus West Coast jazz! Here’s the sound of Detroit……and we don’t mean Motown!! Detroit born Donald Byrd’s second album “Byrd’s Word” features a veritable posse of Detroit connected musicians! Detroit born musicians Hank Jones…”the finest pianist in jazz today” and Paul Chambers….”no flash in the pan” are joined by Detroit based Frank Foster on tenor sax and a musician who made his mark in Detroit, Kenny Clarke on drums…”his consistant self always anticipating the beat”. “Byrd’s Eye View”…recorded in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1955 and what a line up! Dig these names…..Donald Byrd on trumpet, Joe Gordon on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Horace Silver on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Art Blakey on drums…………phew!! And taken from the ori