Donald Byrd: Transition Sessions auf 2 CDs

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Donald Byrd (1932-2013) was among the most creative of the post-Miles Davis generation of jazz trumpeters, already acclaimed when, at 23, he replaced Clifford Brown in Art Blakey's Messengers in 1955.

On »Byrd’s Eye View«, the first of these early Byrd studio dates for the small Transition label, he had his Jazz Messengers colleagues, Mobley, Silver, Watkins and Blakey, along with Boston trumpeter Joe Gordon, whose more outgoing style complemented Byrd’s supple, lyrical, rather introverted approach and fresh conception on an improvising session full of heated, crisp exchanges.

The second album, »Watkins at Large«, was bassist Doug Watkins' first date as a leader and a great example of his confident soloing. Byrd is again in vividly dramatic form, with authoritative playing by Mobley and Burrell, sustained by a vigorous rhythm section