Donald Byrd - A New Perspective This includes one of my all time favorite jazz songs - "Cristo Redentor" written by Duke Pearson upon seeing the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro. On the 1963 Byrd album A New Perspective, Pearson arranged four tracks, including "Cristo Redentor", which became a big hit. In my opinion along with Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme, and Charlie Parker with Strings, this is a must have album for any true jazz lover. Donald Byrd – trumpet Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock – piano Kenny Burrell – guitar Donald Best – vibraphone, vocals Butch Warren – bass Lex Humphries – drums Duke Pearson – arranger Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – choir direction Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer (Probably the very best recording engineer ever in the music industry)!
Right now is the Jim Jones Revue covering Little Richard's Hey Hey Hey. It's playing on Rock n Roll manifesto show on realpunkradio.com Tuesday evenings. Good stuff. Come listen.
Thanks to Spotify, I've been listening to a bunch of stuff that I haven't had the chance to listen to. Here are some examples:
Tedeschi-Trucks band. Saw them play together at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival last summer in Chicago. Phenomenal!!!
