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The Blackbyrds - Blackbyrds (LP)

Blackbyrds
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Album Details: Blackbyrds

Release Date:01/01/1974
Label:Bgp - Beat Goes Pub.
UPC:029667510516

Track List: Blackbyrds

  1. Do It, Fluid
  2. Gut Level
  3. Reggins
  4. Runaway
  1. Funky Junkie
  2. Summer Love
  3. Life Styles
  4. Hot Day Today

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  • All Music Guide

    This amazing album is the product of six full-time Howard University students taking the direction of department head and jazz great Donald Byrd into the Fantasy Studios along with the aid of production wizard Larry Mizell. The result is some of the finest groove-oriented jazz music ever recorded. The rhythm section of Joe Hall on bass and Keith Killgo on drums provides a tight foundation for the Blackbyrds to enhance any dancefloor with their soulful explorations. With Kevin Toney supplying beautiful keyboard work and Barney Perry hitting listeners up with his chicken-scratch guitar, the skeletal framework for what could be called optimistic funk was firmly established by this debut record. Recommended songs include "Do It, Fluid," "Reggins," and "Summer Love," although the overall consistency of quality tracks on The Blackbyrds is reason enough to give the album a complete listen.

    - Robert Gabriel, All Music Guide

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Biography

The Blackbyrds

The Blackbyrds were a jazz-funk group with thick RB streaks running down their backs. Assembled by Donald Byrd in 1974, the group's original members -- percussionist Pericles "Perk" Jacobs Jr., drummer Keith Killgo, keyboardist Kevin Toney, reeds player Allan Barnes, bassist Joe Hall, guitarist Barney Perry -- were mined from Howard University's music department, where ... Read more