DONALD BYRD Free Form RARE BLUE NOTE 4118 MONO NY USA

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  DONALD BYRD Free Form RARE BLUE NOTE 4118 MONO NY USA A MINT MINUS/VG PLUS ORIGINAL LP ON BLUE NOTE 4118

FROM 1963 IN MONO WITH NEW YORK USA ON LABEL AND WEST 61ST ADDRESS ON BOTTOM OF BACK COVER

RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER WITH VAN GELDER IN THE DEAD WAX IMPRESSED IN BLOCK LETTERS

WITH THE ORIGINAL BLUE NOTE BLACK AND WHITE THUMBNAIL INNER SLEEVE AS SHOWN

WITH DONALD ON TRUMPET, WAYNE SHORTER ON TENOR SAX, HERBIE HANCOCK ON PIANO, BUTCH WARREN ON BASS AND BILLY HIGGINS ON DRUMS

5 TRACKS INCLUDE PENTECOSTAL FEELING, NIGHT FLOWER, NAI NAI, FRENCH SPICE, FREE FORM

COVER STOCK WITH SOME LIGHT RUB WEAR. CORNERS WITH ROUGH SPOTS ON POINT. TOP RIGHT CORNER WITH CREASE LINES FROM PRIOR BEND. SOME LIGHT OVERALL AGE DISCOLORATION TO THE WHITE CARD STOCK.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE. THE VINYL BLANK APPEARS PRISTINE OUT OF THE SLEEVE; UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT A VERY FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUBS MARKS/FAINT SCUFF LINES MAY BE SEEN IF ASSIDUOUSLY LOOKED FOR.

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by Michael G. Nastos
Donald Byrd's 1961 recording Free Form is both a smorgasboard of modern jazz styles and a breakthrough album showing the Detroit born trumpeter's versatility and interest in diversity. At age thirty, turning down offers to teach and a full decade before turning to commercial funk fusion with his Blackbyrds, Byrd, alongside a wonderful collection of jazz professionals, proves his mettle as an individualist while also straddling the blurred lines of jazz stylistically. Where his brass tone is very lean and toned, he does not resort to outlandish outbursts into the ionosphere, but shows a refined yet daring approach removed from his predecessors or peers -- Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan in particular. With tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, a very young pianist Herbie Hancock, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Butch Warren, Byrd tackles different flavors of jazz with a voracious appetite, and delivers a very fresh perspective from them all. From Column A - soul junction - "Pentecostal Feelin'" comes straight from the Horace Silver bag, an original funk with Shorter, Hancock and Higgins head noddin' to the band. Column B's "Nai Nai" is all straight ahead hard bop, lighter but not wimpy as Byrd and Shorter play well together. The more modal "French Spice" is still in the hard-to-post bop mold, but has a two note base until the horns burst out with a rich melody. The title track spectacularly represents the so-called "new thing," a tone row based, searching or clarion type spontaneous improvisation where the band is purposefully set apart from the inventive drumming of Higgins in a firmly non-established meter. Romance is also on the menu via the no frills ballad "Night Flower" as Byrd serenely leads the band into a curtain closing venture into tenderness, with Hancock's underlying chords something to truly behold upon close listening. Only the Japanese import bears extra tracks, including Hancock's "Three Wishes," one of his rarer early compositions. This may be close to Donald Byrd's best early work, a strong statement that is by no means homogeneous, but expresses many of the avenues in jazz he was exploring while finding his own unique voice on the trumpet.

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