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-{{Template}}'''Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II''' (born [[December 9]], [[1932]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] and [[rhythm and blues]] [[trumpeter]], born in [[Detroit, Michigan]]. He attended [[Cass Technical High School]]. He performed with [[Lionel Hampton]] before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the [[United States Air Force]], he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from [[Wayne State University]] and a master's degree from [[Manhattan School of Music]]. While still at the Manhattan School he joined [[Art Blakey]]'s Jazz Messengers, replacing [[Clifford Brown]]. In 1955, he recorded with [[Jackie McLean]] and [[Mal Waldron]]. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956 he performed with a wide variety of highly regarded jazz musicians, including [[John Coltrane]], [[Sonny Rollins]], [[Herbie Hancock]], and [[Thelonious Monk]].+{{Template}}
-In the [[1970s]], he moved away from his previous [[Hard bop|hard-bop]] jazz base and began to record [[jazz fusion]], Jazz-funk, soul-Jazz, and [[rhythm and blues]]. Teaming up with the [[Mizell Brothers]], they produced ''[[Black Byrd]]'', which was enormously successful and became [[Blue Note]] Records' highest-ever selling album. The Mizell Brothers follow-up production albums for Byrd, ''Places and Spaces'', ''Steppin' Into Tomorrow'' and ''Street Lady'' were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as [[Us3]].+'''Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II''' (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an [[United States|American]] jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was best known as one of the only [[bebop]] jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a jazz artist.
-He has taught music at [[Rutgers University]], the [[Hampton Institute]], [[New York University]], [[Howard University]], and [[Oberlin College]]. In 1974 he created the [[Blackbyrds]], a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits, including "Walking In Rhythm" and "Blackbyrds Theme". +==Biography==
 +Byrd attended [[Cass Technical High School]]. He performed with [[Lionel Hampton]] before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the [[United States Air Force]], he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from [[Wayne State University]] and a master's degree from [[Manhattan School of Music]]. While still at the Manhattan School, he joined [[Art Blakey]]'s [[Jazz Messengers]], as replacement for [[Clifford Brown]]. In 1955, he recorded with [[Jackie McLean]] and [[Mal Waldron]]. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956, he performed with many leading jazz musicians of the day, including [[John Coltrane]], [[Sonny Rollins]], [[Thelonious Monk]], and later [[Herbie Hancock]]. Byrd's first regular group was a quintet that he co-led from 1958-61 with baritone saxophonist [[Pepper Adams]], an ensemble whose hard-driving performances are captured "live" on ''[[At the Half Note Cafe]]''. In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend [[Eric Dolphy]] in [[Paris]] just two weeks before Dolphy's death from [[insulin shock]].
-In 1993, Byrd teamed up with [[Gang Starr]] MC [[Guru (rapper)|Guru]] for the track "Loungin'" on the [[Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1|Jazzmatazz]] project.+In the 1970s, Byrd moved away from the [[Hard bop|hard-bop]] jazz idiom and began to record [[jazz fusion]] and [[rhythm and blues]]. He teamed up with the [[Mizell Brothers]] (producer-writers Larry and Fonce) for ''[[Black Byrd]]'' in 1973. It was highly successful and became [[Blue Note]] Records' highest-ever selling album. The title track climbed to No. 19 on ''Billboard''′s R&B chart and reached the Hot 100 pop chart, peaking at No. 88. The Mizell brothers' follow-up albums for Byrd, ''Street Lady'', ''[[Places and Spaces]]'' and ''[[Stepping into Tomorrow]]'', were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as [[Us3]]. Most of the material for the albums was written by Larry Mizell. In 1973, he created [[The Blackbyrds]], a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits including "[[Happy Music]]" (No. 3 R&B, No. 19 pop), "Walking In Rhythm" (No. 4 R&B, No. 6 pop) and "[[Rock Creek Park]]".
-Byrd lives in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]].<ref>[http://www.nj.com/greatday/stories/more.html The State of Jazz: Meet 40 More Jersey Greats], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', [[September 28]], [[2004]]</ref>+During his tenure at North Carolina Central University during the 1980's, he formed a group which included students from the college called, Donald Byrd & the 125th St NYC Band. He taught at [[Rutgers University]], the [[Hampton Institute]], [[New York University]], [[Howard University]], [[Queens College]], [[Oberlin College]], [[Cornell University]], [[North Carolina Central University]] and [[Delaware State University]]. In addition to his master's from Manhattan School of Music, Byrd has two master's degrees from [[Columbia University]]. He received a law degree in 1976, and his doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College in 1982.
-===Albums===+Byrd lives in [[Teaneck, New Jersey]]
-2006 [[Pop-Jazz Volume 1]]+
-2005 [[In a Soulful Mood]]+==Discography==
- +===As leader===
-2004 [[Mustang! (Japan Bonus Tracks)]]+;[[Blue Note Records]]
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-2004 [[At the Half Note Cafe, Vol. 1-2 (Bonus Tracks)]]+
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-2004 [[Blackjack (Bonus Tracks)]]+
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-2004 [[Free Form (Bonus Track)]]+
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-2004 [[Free Form (Japan Bonus Track)]]+
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-2003 [[Out of This World (Donald Byrd album)|Out of This World]]+
- +
-2003 [[At the Half Note Cafe, Vol. 2]]+
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-2003 [[At the Half Note Cafe, Vol. 1]]+
- +
-2002 [[The Transition Sessions]]+
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-2000 [[Touchstone(Donald Byrd album)|Touchstone]]+
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-1991 [[A City Called Heaven]]+
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-1989 [[Getting Down to Business]]+
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-1987 [[Harlem Blues]]+
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-1983 [[Words, Sounds, Colors and Shapes]]+
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-1981 [[Love Byrd: Donald Byrd and 125th St, N.Y.C.]]+
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-1978 [[Thank You...For F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life)]]+
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-1976 [[Caricatures(Donald Byrd album)|Caricatures]]+
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-1975 [[Places and Spaces]]+
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-1974 [[Stepping into Tomorrow]]+
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-1973 [[Street Lady]]+
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-1972 [[Black Byrd]]+
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-1971 [[Ethiopian Knights]]+
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-1970 [[Electric Byrd]]+
- +
-1969 [[Fancy Free]]+
-1967 [[Slow Drag (album)|Slow Drag]]+*''[[Off to the Races]]'' (1959)
 +*''[[Byrd in Hand]]'' (1959)
 +*''[[Fuego (Donald Byrd album)|Fuego]]'' (1959)
 +*''[[Byrd in Flight]]'' (1960)
 +*''[[At the Half Note Cafe]]'' (1960)
 +*''[[Chant (Donald Byrd album)|Chant]]'' (1961)
 +*''[[The Cat Walk]]'' (1961)
 +*''[[Royal Flush (album)|Royal Flush]]'' (1961)
 +*''[[Free Form (album)|Free Form]]'' (1961)
 +*''[[A New Perspective]]'' (1963)
 +*''[[I'm Tryin' to Get Home]]'' (1964)
 +*''[[Mustang! (Donald Byrd album)|Mustang]]'' (1966)
 +*''[[Blackjack (Donald Byrd album)|Blackjack]]'' (1967)
 +*''[[Slow Drag (album)|Slow Drag]]'' (1967)
 +*''[[The Creeper (album)|The Creeper]]'' (1967)
 +*''[[Fancy Free (Donald Byrd album)|Fancy Free]]'' (1969)
 +*''[[Electric Byrd]]'' (1969–70)
 +*''[[Kofi (album)|Kofi]]'' (1969)
 +*''[[Ethiopian Knights]]'' (1971)
 +*''[[Black Byrd]]'' (1973)
 +*''[[Street Lady]]'' (1973)
 +*''[[Stepping into Tomorrow]]'' (1974)
 +*''[[Places and Spaces]]'' (1975)
 +*''[[Caricatures (Donald Byrd album)|Caricatures]]'' (1976)
-1965 [[Up With Donald Byrd]]+;[[Landmark Records]]
 +*''[[Words, Sounds, Colors and Shapes]]'' (1983)
 +*''[[Harlem Blues]]'' (1987)
 +*''[[Getting Down to Business]]'' (1989)
 +*''[[A City Called Heaven]]'' (1991)
-1963 [[A New Perspective]]+;Other labels
 +*''[[Byrd Jazz]]'' (Transition, 1955) - also released as ''First Flight'' (Delmark)
 +*''[[Byrd's Word]]'' (Savoy, 1955)
 +*''[[Byrd's Eye View]]'' (Transition, 1955)
 +*''[[Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill]]'' (Transition, 1956)
 +*''[[2 Trumpets]]'' (Prestige, 1956) - with [[Art Farmer]]
 +*''[[The Young Bloods]]'' (Prestige, 1956) - with [[Phil Woods]]
 +*''[[Jazz Lab]]'' (Columbia, 1957) - with [[Gigi Gryce]]
 +*''[[At Newport (Cecil Taylor & Gigi Gryce album)|At Newport]]'' (Verve, 1957) - with Gigi Gryce
 +*''[[Modern Jazz Perspective]]'' (Columbia, 1957) - with Gigi Gryce and [[Jackie Paris]]
 +*''[[Jazz Eyes]]'' (Regent, 1957) - with [[John Jenkins (jazz musician)|John Jenkins]]
 +*''[[Byrd in Paris]]'' (Bethlehem, 1958)
 +*''[[Parisian Thoroughfare]]'' (1958)
 +*''[[Live Au Chat Qui Peche]]'' (1958), Fresh Sound Records
 +*''[[Motor City Scene]]'' - with Pepper Adams (1960), [[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]]
 +*''[[Up with Donald Byrd]]'' (1964), [[Verve Records|Verve]]
 +*''[[Thank You... for F.U.M.L. (Funking Up My Life)]]'' (1978), [[Elektra Records|Elektra]]
 +*''[[Love Byrd]]'' (1981), Elektra
 +*''[[Touchstone (Donald Byrd album)|Touchstone]]'' (2000)
 +*''[[The Transition Sessions]]'' (2002)
-1961 [[Free Form]]+===As sideman===
 +*1955 [[Kenny Clarke]] - ''[[Bohemia After Dark]]''
 +*1955 [[Cannonball Adderley]] - ''[[Discoveries (album)|Discoveries]]''
 +*1955 [[Oscar Pettiford]] - ''Another One''
 +*1955 [[Hank Jones]] - ''Quartet-Quintet''
 +*1955 Hank Jones - ''Bluebird'' - one track only
 +*1955 [[Ernie Wilkins]] - ''Top Brass''
 +*1956 [[George Wallington]] - ''Jazz for the Carriage Trade''
 +*1956 [[Jackie McLean]] - ''[[Lights Out!]]''
 +*1956 [[Hank Mobley]] - ''[[The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley]]''
 +*1956 Kenny Clarke - ''Klook's Clique''
 +*1956 [[Art Blakey]] - ''[[Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers|The Jazz Messengers]]''
 +*1956 [[Rita Reys]] - ''The Cool Voice of Rita Reys''
 +*1956 [[Elmo Hope]] - ''[[Informal Jazz]]''
 +*1956 [[Phil Woods]] - ''[[Pairing Off]]''
 +*1956 Jackie McLean - ''[[4, 5 and 6]]''
 +*1956 [[Gene Ammons]] - ''[[Jammin' with Gene]]''
 +*1956 [[Horace Silver]] - ''[[Silver's Blue]]''
 +*1956 Hank Mobley - ''[[Mobley's Message]]''
 +*1956 Hank Mobley - ''[[Jazz Message No. 2|Jazz Message No.&nbsp;2]]''
 +*1956 [[Art Farmer]] - ''[[2 Trumpets]]''
 +*1956 [[Paul Chambers]] - ''[[Whims of Chambers]]''
 +*1956 [[Phil Woods]]/Donald Byrd - ''[[The Young Bloods]]''
 +*1956 Horace Silver - ''[[6 Pieces of Silver]]''
 +*1956 Hank Mobley - ''[[Hank Mobley Sextet]]''
 +*1956 [[Doug Watkins]] - ''[[Watkins at Large]]''
 +*1956 [[Sonny Rollins]] - ''[[Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1]]''
 +*1956 [[Kenny Burrell]] - ''[[All Night Long (Kenny Burrell album)|All Night Long]]''
 +*1957 Kenny Burrell - ''[[All Day Long]]''
 +*1957 [[Gigi Gryce]]/Donald Byrd - ''[[Jazz Lab]]''
 +*1957 Art Farmer/Donald Byrd/[[Idrees Sulieman]] - ''[[Three Trumpets]]''
 +*1957 [[Lou Donaldson]] - ''[[Wailing with Lou]]''
 +*1957 [[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]] - ''[[A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One]]
 +*1957 [[Art Taylor]] - ''[[Taylor's Wailers]]''
 +*1957 Gigi Gryce - ''[[Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet]]''
 +*1957 George Wallington - ''[[The New York Scene]]''
 +*1957 Various Artists - ''[[American Jazzmen Play Andre Hodeir's Essais]]''
 +*1957 Kenny Burrell/[[Jimmy Raney]] - ''[[2 Guitars]]''
 +*1957 [[Kenny Drew]] - ''[[This Is New (Kenny Drew album)|This Is New]]'' (Riverside)
 +*1957 Hank Mobley - ''[[Hank (album)|Hank]]''
 +*1957 Paul Chambers - ''[[Paul Chambers Quintet]]''
 +*1957 The Gigi Gryce/Donald Byrd Jazz Lab - ''[[At Newport (Cecil Taylor & Gigi Gryce album)|At Newport]]'' - One side of LP which also features [[Cecil Taylor]]
 +*1957 Gigi Gryce/Donald Byrd - ''[[New Formulas from the Jazz Lab]]''
 +*1957 Gigi Gryce/Donald Byrd - ''[[Modern Jazz Perspective]]''
 +*1957 [[Sonny Clark]] - ''[[Sonny's Crib]]''
 +*1957 [[John Jenkins (jazz musician)|John Jenkins]] - ''Star Eyes''
 +*1957 Oscar Pettiford - ''[[Winner's Circle]]''
 +*1957 George Wallington - ''Jazz at Hotchkiss''
 +*1957 [[Red Garland]] - ''[[All Mornin' Long]]''
 +*1957 Red Garland - ''Soul Junction''
 +*1957 Red Garland - ''High Pressure''
 +*1957 Lou Donaldson - ''[[Lou Takes Off]]''
 +*1958 [[John Coltrane]] - ''[[Lush Life (John Coltrane album)|Lush Life]]'' - one track only
 +*1958 John Coltrane - ''[[The Believer (John Coltrane album)|The Believer]]'' - two tracks
 +*1958 John Coltrane - ''[[The Last Trane]]'' - two tracks
 +*1958 [[Johnny Griffin]] - ''Johnny Griffin Sextet''
 +*1958 [[Pepper Adams]] - ''[[10 to 4 at the 5 Spot]]'' (Riverside)
 +*1958 John Coltrane - ''[[Black Pearls]]''
 +*1958 [[Michel Legrand]] - ''Legrand Jazz''
 +*1958 [[Dizzy Reece]] - ''[[Blues in Trinity]]''
 +*1958 Art Blakey - ''[[Holiday for Skins]]''
 +*1958 [[Jim Timmens]] - ''Gilbert and Sullivan Revisited''
 +*1959 [[Mundell Lowe]] - ''[[TV Action Jazz!]]''
 +*1959 Jackie McLean - ''[[Jackie's Bag]]''
 +*1959 [[Thelonious Monk]] - ''[[The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall]]''
 +*1959 [[Chris Connor]] - ''Ballads of the Sad Cafe''
 +*1959 [[Sonny Clark]] - ''[[My Conception]]''
 +*1959 [[Manny Albam]]/[[Teo Macero]] - ''Something New, Something Blue''
 +*1959 Jackie McLean - ''[[Vertigo (Jackie McLean album)|Vertigo]]''
 +*1959 Jackie McLean - ''[[New Soil]]''
 +*1959 [[Walter Davis Jr.]] - ''[[Davis Cup (album)|Davis Cup]]''
 +*1961 [[Pepper Adams]] - ''[[Out of This World (Pepper Adams album)|Out of This World]]''
 +*1962 [[Duke Pearson]] - ''[[Hush!]]''
 +*1963 Hank Mobley - ''[[No Room for Squares]]''
 +*1963 Hank Mobley - ''[[Straight No Filter]]'' - released 1986
 +*1963 Hank Mobley - ''[[The Turnaround]]''
 +*1963 [[Jimmy Heath]] - ''[[Swamp Seed]]
 +*1963 [[Herbie Hancock]] - ''[[My Point of View]]''
 +*1964 [[Dexter Gordon]] - ''[[One Flight Up]]''
 +*1964 [[Cal Tjader]] - ''Soul Sauce''
 +*1964 [[Solomon Ilori]] - ''[[African High Life]]''
 +*1964 Duke Pearson - ''[[Wahoo!]]''
 +*1965 Dexter Gordon - ''Ladybird''
 +*1965 [[Wes Montgomery]] - ''[[Goin' Out of My Head (album)|Goin' Out of My Head]]''
 +*1967 [[Stanley Turrentine]] - ''[[A Bluish Bag]]''
 +*1967 [[Sam Rivers]] - ''[[Dimensions & Extensions]]''
 +*1967 Hank Mobley - ''[[Far Away Lands]]''
 +*1977 [[Gene Harris]] - ''[[Tone Tantrum]]''
 +*1978 Sonny Rollins - ''[[Don't Stop the Carnival (Sonny Rollins album)|Don't Stop the Carnival]]''
 +*1993 [[Guru (rapper)|Guru]] - ''[[Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1]]''
 +*1994 Various - ''[[Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool]]''
 +*1995 [[Guru (rapper)|Guru]] - ''[[Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality]]''
 +*1995 [[Ahmad Jamal]] - ''[[Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2]]''
-1960 [[Byrd in Flight]] 
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-1959 [[Byrd in Hand]] 
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-Several other albums and re-releases originally recorded in the mid 1950's thru the mid 1960's exist mainly on Blue Note Records. 
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Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a jazz artist.

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Biography

Byrd attended Cass Technical High School. He performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music. While still at the Manhattan School, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, as replacement for Clifford Brown. In 1955, he recorded with Jackie McLean and Mal Waldron. After leaving the Jazz Messengers in 1956, he performed with many leading jazz musicians of the day, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and later Herbie Hancock. Byrd's first regular group was a quintet that he co-led from 1958-61 with baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, an ensemble whose hard-driving performances are captured "live" on At the Half Note Cafe. In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend Eric Dolphy in Paris just two weeks before Dolphy's death from insulin shock.

In the 1970s, Byrd moved away from the hard-bop jazz idiom and began to record jazz fusion and rhythm and blues. He teamed up with the Mizell Brothers (producer-writers Larry and Fonce) for Black Byrd in 1973. It was highly successful and became Blue Note Records' highest-ever selling album. The title track climbed to No. 19 on Billboard′s R&B chart and reached the Hot 100 pop chart, peaking at No. 88. The Mizell brothers' follow-up albums for Byrd, Street Lady, Places and Spaces and Stepping into Tomorrow, were also big sellers, and have subsequently provided a rich source of samples for acid jazz artists such as Us3. Most of the material for the albums was written by Larry Mizell. In 1973, he created The Blackbyrds, a fusion group consisting of his best students. They scored several major hits including "Happy Music" (No. 3 R&B, No. 19 pop), "Walking In Rhythm" (No. 4 R&B, No. 6 pop) and "Rock Creek Park".

During his tenure at North Carolina Central University during the 1980's, he formed a group which included students from the college called, Donald Byrd & the 125th St NYC Band. He taught at Rutgers University, the Hampton Institute, New York University, Howard University, Queens College, Oberlin College, Cornell University, North Carolina Central University and Delaware State University. In addition to his master's from Manhattan School of Music, Byrd has two master's degrees from Columbia University. He received a law degree in 1976, and his doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College in 1982.

Byrd lives in Teaneck, New Jersey

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