Donald Byrd - At the Half Note Cafe Vol.1 - Tone Poet LP

180g Vinyl LP. Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series.Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from Original Analog Tapes!Produced by Music Matters' Joe Harley.Pressed at RTI! Trumpeter Donald Byrd was just two years into his two-decade-long Blue Note recording career when he brought his quintet in to Manhattan's Half Note Café in November 1960 to record this soulful, swinging, and highly enjoyable live set of hard bop featuring Pepper Adams on baritone saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano, Laymon Jackson on bass, and Lex Humphries on drums. Byrd had already established himself as a leading trumpeter on the scene and was riding high on a creative hot streak that produced the studio albums Off to the Races, Byrd in Hand, Fuego, and Byrd in Flight. After an introduction by WOV disc jockey Ruth Mason (who would later become Ruth Lion, wife of Blue Note founder Alfred Lion), the band hits the ground running on Pearson's up-tempo "My Girl Shirl" before downshifting into Byrd's blues "Sou