Coral Keys - Black Jazz Series Reissue: Vinyl LP BF30 Donald Byrd’s ‘Black Byrd’ album

Donald Byrd’s ‘Black Byrd’ album was a big success for Blue Note

The anticipated follow-up to A Wall Becomes A Bridge

Bullethead (Side B)

one of his acknowledged masterpiece albums

6    The Christmas Song [3:18]

Coral Keys - Black Jazz Series Reissue: Vinyl LP BF30 Donald Byrd’s ‘Black Byrd’ albumThe first release on Black Jazz was by pianist and label producer Gene Russell; for the label's second release, Russell chose another piano man of impeccable taste, Walter Bishop, Jr. But while much of Russell's record consisted of songs composed by others, Bishop's record features all originals, most notably "Soul Turn Around," a groover that later turned up on Freddie Hubbard's 1969 LP A Soul Experiment. Bishop had helmed several releases before