Donald Byrd: Byrd's Eye View LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) BREC-56 a work of pure spirit

a work of pure spirit and song

John Jenkins on alto sax

Horace Silver

The Afterlife

Donald Byrd: Byrd's Eye View LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) BREC-56 a work of pure spiritBlue Note, 1956 Recorded in 1955 for producer Tom Wilsons short lived Boston based label Transition Records, Byrds Eye View was trumpeter Donald Byrds first issued recording as a leader. The date presented Byrd at the helm of what was then the current line up of The Jazz Messengers with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Horace Silver, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Art Blakey. Local Boston area trumpeter Joe Gordon joins the band for some