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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : Donald Byrd ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : Blue Note Records ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Jazz ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2022-12-09 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 897 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 307.09 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 45:22 min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://allmusic.com/album/release/live-cookin-wit ███▄▓
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██▌ 1. Black Byrd 8:11 ▐██
██▌ 2. You've Got It Bad Girl 7:42 ▐██
██▌ 3. The East 9:19 ▐██
██▌ 4. Introductions 2:58 ▐██
██▌ 5. Kwame 11:50 ▐██
██▌ 6. Poco-Mania 5:22 ▐██
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████ In July 1973, New York's Blue Note Records assembled an artists ████
████ showcase for Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival. The performers ████
████ included Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson, Ronnie Foster, Marlena ████
████ Shaw, and Donald Byrd. Following the gigs, the label released a ████
████ series of albums from them with the same title: Live: Cookin' ████
████ with Blue Note at Montreux. Byrd's performance was shelved, ████
████ perhaps because Black Byrd, his collaboration with Larry and ████
████ Fonce Mizell, became a crossover R&B hit and was still on the ████
████ charts. The tapes sat for decades until Gilles Peterson mentioned ████
████ them to label boss Don Was in 2013 after Byrd died. Was heard the ████
████ 2" master tapes and was blown away. Blue Note finally releases ████
████ the album in commemoration of his 90th birthday. Byrd's ten-piece ████
████ Montreux band included Fonce on trumpet, Larry on synths, ████
████ saxophonists Nathan Davis and Allan Barnes, electric pianist ████
████ Kevin Toney, guitarist Barney Perry, electric bassist Henry ████
████ Franklin, drummer Keith Killgo, and conguero/percussionist Ray ████
████ Armando. ████
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████ This impeccably recorded set contains five tunes (three appear ████
████ only here), lasting just over 45 minutes. The gig opened with ████
████ "Black Byrd." Synth, hi-hat, and percussion introduce the jam's ████
████ iconic vamp as Byrd, Fonce, and Killgo chant. This version ████
████ contains a massive, incessant groove, framing Davis' soaring ████
████ tenor solo, and interplay between drummer and percussionist; it's ████
████ hypnotic and utterly danceable. Byrd and company throw the crowd ████
████ a curve by covering Stevie Wonder's "You've Got It Bad Girl." The ████
████ silky soul ballad is articulated by the rhythm section before the ████
████ drummers deliver a Latin funk vamp. The tempo increases as Byrd ████
████ and Davis deliver killer modal solos atop Franklin's roiling ████
████ bassline, spiky guitar, synth, and piano. They briefly return to ████
████ the melody, but then move into denser exploration. "The East" is ████
████ introduced by a funk riff before the trumpeters fall in; they ████
████ play together, then dovetail wonderfully in gorgeous harmonic ████
████ interplay. A simple, circular wah-wah guitar riff signals the ████
████ band, and they cut loose with overdriven funk and ride it hard ████
████ for another seven minutes. Longest track "Kwame" begins in spacey ████
████ abstraction as soprano sax and synth offer drones before electric ████
████ piano, drums, guitar, and bass fall in with a dark, Weather ████
████ Report-esque vamp, which gathers force and melodic intensity ████
████ until it explodes in a collision of modal jazz, bluesy funk, and ████
████ proto-Afrobeat, with all four horns burning in unison before ████
████ Barnes delivers a smoking tenor break. Closer "Poco-Mania" is a ████
████ burner played at furious bebop tempo; the head -- again played by ████
████ all horns -- is knotty, driving, and unrelenting in its tension ████
████ and intensity. Byrd takes the first solo and charges into the ████
████ rhythm section's maelstrom. Davis and Barnes deliver powerful ████
████ solos before Byrd initiates an even faster tempo, and the band ████
████ accelerates until they suddenly quit in dramatic fashion. Live: ████
████ Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux, July 5, 1973 is not only an ████
████ astonishing, unearthed treasure for Byrd's fans on his birthday, ████
████ it's also more than that -- it's a bona fide '70s jazz-funk ████
████ classic. ████
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