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Donald Byrd vinyl records

33 albums with 612 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II. American jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader and educator Born December 9, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, USA Died February 4, 2013 in Dover, Delaware, USA (aged 80) Byrd attended Cass Tech, where he studied classical music and was mentored by the band director , a disciplinarian. He played trumpet in military bands during a stint in the Air Force from 1951–1953, before graduating from in 1954 with a music degree. Like other young Detroit jazz musicians, he also studied with bebop pianist . Byrd's warmly burnished sound, fluent technique and aggressive-yet-graceful swing was rooted in the style of , but his gangly, rhythmically loose phrasing was a unique calling card right from the start.