Milestones Of A Jazz Legend

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18 CDs of original remastered albums drawn from the "best-seller of Blue Notes" / A musical journey from hardbop to soul jazz with a lot of exceptional music. The American trumpeter Donald Byrd (1932-2003) was one of the most important representatives of Hardbop and, like his colleagues Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard, he managed to redirect his productions towards funk and soul, finding a new audience and conquering Pop; when Rock began to push Jazz into a niche at the end of the 60s. The 2nd generation of hip hop sampled his albums "Black Byrd" and "Street Lady" and his productions for the Blackbyrds. He also actively participated in projects like Guru's Jazzmatazz. Interestingly, Byrd's composition "Pentecostal feelin'" from the album "free form," which completes this collection of the most important recordings of Byrd's early works, was a "blue" pressing for the label Blue Note's first hit, "sidewinder" by Lee Morgan, which was to be released three years later. In the 1990s, Byrd returned to the hardbop of his youth and also taught several of today's jazz stars as a professor at various universities.