The Blackbyrds (Vinyl LP) Prints

The Blackbyrds (Vinyl LP) PrintsThe Blackbyrds is the debut album by the American rhythm and blues and jazz funk fusion group the Blackbyrds. It was produced by Larry Mizell and Donald Byrd with production supervision by Orrin Keepnews. The album artwork is a section of the Vincent Van Gogh painting Wheatfield With Crows.

Circumstance certainly played some role in the birth of this musical revolution - the sonic ugliness reflecting the bleak industrial nightmare of Birmingham

1964 and 1965 with stellar musicians including Hampton Hawes

Buck Meek (guitar)

Classic early 80's boogie from Motown

joins forces with pioneering producer

polyphonic indie music

The backup band includes Hotep Cecil Barnard on keyboards

It forms a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time

because his solo interpretations are such symbiotic reflections of Mingus' intent as a composer

and Stardust’s "Music Sounds Better With You

It's a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together

His third album