Byrd's Eye View is an album by trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded in 1955 and originally released on Tom Wilson's Transition label. The album was later re-released...

fighters. Byrd's hometown is Flint, Michigan, where he trained along with his brother Patrick Byrd and sister Tracy Byrd. Byrd's other sister, Laurie Byrd, is...

Cafe. Byrd's 1961 LP Royal Flush was Hancock's Blue Note debut. Hancock has credited Byrd as a key influence in his early career, recounting that Byrd took...

Transition label. The album contains Byrd's first recordings as a leader (although the sessions that comprised Byrd's Eye View were released first), and was...

Increases". Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Zito, Salena. "Byrd's-eye view of Dems dim". TribLive. Chasing Churchill: In Search of My Grandfather...

he had previously written. Donald Byrd's 1961 album Royal Flush was Hancock's Blue Note debut. Hank Mobley, like Byrd, was in the midst of recording a...

releases. The title of the album inspired the name of Byrd's apprentice group, The Blackbyrds. Donald Byrd - trumpet, flugelhorn, electric trumpet, vocals Allan...

– rec. 1956 K. B. Blues (Blue Note, 1979) – rec. 1957 Byrd's Eye View (Transition, 1955) Byrd in Flight (Blue Note, 1960) A New Perspective (Blue Note...

Sun Ra: Sun Song 1956: Cecil Taylor: Jazz Advance 1956: Donald Byrd: Byrd’s Eye View 1958: Louis Smith: Here Comes Louis Smith 1959: Curtis Fuller: Sliding...

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