Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP Blue Note spaced-out McDuff originals including hard-grooving

spaced-out McDuff originals including hard-grooving numbers like “Flat Backin’” and “Loose Foot

One of the first soul jazz icons of the mid-'60s

Blue's Theme

Ron Carter & Joe Chambers performing Shorter originals like ‘Tom Thumb’

Dearie surveys the Great American Songbook on standouts like “’Deed I Do” and “Thou Swell”

Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP Blue Note spaced-out McDuff originals including hard-groovingRecorded in 1956 for producer Tom Wilsons Boston based label Transition Records, Byrd Blows On Beacon Hill presented trumpeter Donald Byrd in a relaxed and intimate quartet setting with Doug Watkins on bass along with Boston area musicians Ray Santisi on piano and Jim Zitano on drums. This mono Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in