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Summary: Donald Byrd Places and Spaces
Comment: I love the CD..It takes me back. The one I received also plays very well. I'm very pleased.
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Summary: Perfection
Comment: One of my favorite albums of all. I heard it first in 1980 when I had got back from Korea and was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. I knew a guy there who would sit and listen to jazz all day on Saturday.
He played this and it wasn't long before I bought my own copy. I've never tired of it through all these years. It still blows me away like it did the first time I heard it. Places and Spaces is my favorite cut with Change a real close second. I like the way the string arrangements and Donald's horn compliment each other.
I hope Donald reads these reviews so that he could know how much joy that album gave a lot of people.
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Summary: byrdman classic
Comment: This is the bomb!!!! jazz/funk that still stands the test of time,every track of this stellar recording, reminds of when i was a young man,sitting on the stoop listening to this and many other great artist of this era,a must for any who can appreciate early jazz/funk/fusion.
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Summary: There are no words ...
Comment: What amazes me about music as I research and study it as I do, is the fact that I can still be surprised and how fluid an album can be 20 plus years after it's inital release. Being of the hip-hop/turntablism era, with all the sampling we do, all that I can say is that this album is responsible for a lot of what we know today. From Black Moon/Smif-N-Wessun, to Pete Rock, to Tupac, this album has been generously sampled (like a LOT of the Blue Note catalog) for good reason. Driving bass accompanying lush grooves make this a great listen and a must have for any music lover. True instrumentalism is of the order here. Flutes, violins, and rolling keybords abound and for 1976 this was a forward thinking album. It's a shame that the stubborn dinosaurs that traditional jazz fans can be turned their nose up at and turned their backs on Donald Byrd, accusing him of 'selling out', yet this is no different from what Miles Davis was trying to do with his fusion; and what Herbie Hancock and Ramsey Lewis have done throughout most of their careers. What a tragedy for this is some of the best jazz fusion to be had from anyone, anywhere.
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Summary: Had to have it!
Comment: Donald Byrd is a classic artist. This album has some mellow music that relaxes the sole. I have it on vinyl, and have been searching for it on cd. So glad to have found it!
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