Donald Byrd: Slow Drag (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-8 Brown’s clean blues picking style—honed

Brown’s clean blues picking style—honed while playing in John Lee Hooker’s and T-Bone Walker’s bands—marinates funkily with the swinging soul-jazz organ of Gerald Wiggins

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Donald Byrd: Slow Drag (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) LP ETJS-8 Brown’s clean blues picking style—honedBlue Note, 1968 Donald Byrds 1967 album Slow Drag was one of the last pure hard bop records the trumpeter would make before his music began evolving towards jazz funk. Byrd flies high on this gratifyingly gritty set featuring alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Billy Higgins. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analogue master tapes,