Donald Byrd - Mustang! (1966)

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Title: Mustang!
Year Of Release: 1966
Label: Blue Note
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, Artwork)
Total Time: 51:59
Total Size: 366 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Mustang
02. Fly Little Bird Fly
03. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
04. Dixie Lee
05. On the Trail
06. I'm So Excited by You
07. Gingerbread Boy*
08. I'm So Excited By You (First Version)*

Donald Byrd, a talented hard bop trumpeter during his prime (although rarely reaching the technical heights of Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard), performs a varied repertoire on Mustang!. "Dixie Lee" has dated rhythms, and "Mustang" was an attempt to achieve a hit on the level of Morgan's "The Sidewinder." However, Byrd sounds fine on those numbers; he digs into the complex chord changes of "Fly Little Bird Fly," is sensitive on "I Got It Bad," swings on his "I'm So Excited by You," and performs his memorable countermelody to "On the Trail," which had been recorded earlier by several other musicians. Teamed with a typically impressive Blue Note crew (altoist Sonny Red, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Walter Booker, and drummer Freddie Waits), Byrd performs high-quality straight-ahead jazz that fits the modern mainstream of the era.