Donald Byrd: Royal Flush LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-1.06 and Adam’s Apple that presented

and Adam’s Apple that presented Shorter’s brilliant and distinctive original compositions performed by various configurations of modern jazz masters

A Love Supreme Part II - Resolution (Take 4 / Alternate)

Highlights include the chamber-jazz interpretation of Jerome Kern’s “Yesterdays” and a lightly swinging version of “Dear Old Stockholm

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As well as superlative versions of Ornette’s “Lonely Woman“ and “Open or Close“ this highly influential album

Donald Byrd: Royal Flush LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-1.06 and Adam’s Apple that presentedBlue Note, 1961 Donald Byrd was off to the races after joining the Blue Note roster in 1958 and had fully hit his hard bop stride by 1961 when he laid down his excellent album Royal Flush. Joining the trumpeter was a state of the art rhythm section featuring a young Herbie Hancock on piano (Hancock was making just his 2nd appearance on a Blue Note recording date following Byrds Chant session earlier that year), Butch Warren on bass, and Billy Higgins