These records were totally ground-breaking in terms of jazz music: for a bebop trumpet player to start transitioning into the worlds of funk and soul was basically unheard of at the time but he did so with class and ease. Though he made music for nearly 60 years, my favourite era, as you can probably tell by my selections, was his early 1970s releases. There’s so much joy in that song I immediately wanted to hear more – which led me down the rabbit hole to Byrd’s solo stuff. I’ll never forget hearing ‘Love Has Come Around’ for the first time on James Murphy & Pat Mahoney’s FabricLive mix from 2007 (one of my “desert island” mixes for sure). “I was first introduced to Donald Byrd through his later disco work with 125th Street, N.Y.C. Listen to the mix, find out why she chose Donald Byrd and check out the track list below: A resident at Los Angeles’ Far Away before becoming a full-time member of the crew alongside founder Cooper Saver, Ferrer has also graced the decks at Low End Theory as the in-house DJ in March. To take us through his many spaces and places, we tapped Jen Ferrer. Nearly 30 years later, he changed the game once more, collaborating with Guru on Jazzmatazz Volume One and Jazzmatazz Volume Two, seminal albums through which Byrd forever left his mark on hip-hop as well.
In 1969, with the help of producing duo the Mizell Brothers, Byrd electrified his sound, on seminal albums Stepping Into Tomorrow, Places and Spaces, Street Lady and Black Byrd, sashaying his way through acid jazz, funk, soul and disco charts, into the hearts of mainstream audiences. The legendary trumpeter whose pioneering jazz-funk laid the foundations for hip-hop.ĭuring the course of his 60-year career, innovative American trumpeter Donald Byrd traversed genres, styles and scenes the way that us ordinary people cross the street.īyrd first came to fame with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1954, before performing with John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock (to name a few).
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