| | | powiększ | | | | lista utworów na The Blackbyrds Blackbyrds / Flying Start | | 1.Do It Fluid 2.Gut Level 3.Reggins 4.The Runaway 5.Funky Junkie 6.Summer Love 7.Life Styles 8.A Hot Day Today 9.I Need You 10.The Baby 11.Love Is Love 12.Blackbyrds' Theme 13.Walking In Rhythm 14.Future Children, Future Hopes 15.April Showers 16.Spaced Out
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| Trumpeter Donald Byrd always had a keen ear for talent. He discovered Herbie Hancock in the early Sixties and, a decade later, organized six of his students at Howard University into a band he called the Blackbyrds, after his then-recent hit fusion album, Black Byrd. They were masters of jazz-funk fusion or "acid jazz," as it's known today, but also had strong pop sensibilities. Their debut album contained the No. 23 R&B, No. 69 pop single "Do It, Fluid," while the second yielded an across-the-board smash in the No. 4 R&B, No. 6 pop "Walking in Rhythm." Rare grooves from those two classic Blackbyrd albums have been widely sampled by such hip-hop artists as Queen Latifah and UTFO and can now be experienced for the first time on compact disc in their original glory. [...więcej...]
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