Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand (1959) 320 kbps

Tracklist

1. Witchcraft 8:29
2. Here Am I 8:25
3. Devil Whip 4:42
4. Bronze Dance 6:42
5. Clarion Calls 5:41
6. The Injuns 6:13

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 31, 1959. Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler and Bob Blumenthal.
All tracks have been digitally remastered in 2002 by Rudy Van Gelder

personnel :

Donald Byrd - trumpet
Charlie Rouse - tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Walter Davis Jr. - piano
Sam Jones - bass
Art Taylor - drums

For this excellent album, trumpeter Donald Byrd teams up with tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Walter Davis, Jr., bassist Sam Jones and drummer Art Taylor. Together the sextet performs three Byrd originals, two Davis songs and the standard "Witchcraft." Although none of the new tunes caught on, the group (which includes two distinctive saxophonists and the rapidly maturing trumpet of Donald Byrd) plays consistently creative and spirited solos in the hard bop idiom.~Scott Yanow