Donald Byrd .::. Street Lady .::. 1973 (repost rs.com)

Three in a row for the Mizzells! Heres a landmark album by Donald Byrd the first one where he really started to click with jazz-funk producer Larry Mizell! Mizell and Byrd had worked together previously on the Black Byrd album a soaring bit of futuristic jazz funk that took Byrd's career to a whole new level but this album's the one where they really began to make the formula cook, blending together tight funky rhythms, spacey keyboards, soulful vocals, and some of Donald's best solo work of the 70s! The whole thing's a masterpiece, and all tracks sparkle including "Lansana's Priestess", "Witch Hunt", and "Street Lady", one of the funkiest tracks ever on Blue Note. A haunting record with a beautiful spacey groove, and one of the best-ever fusion albums on Blue Note.

Tracks:

1 Lansana's Priestess
2 Miss Kane
3 Sister Love
4 Street Lady
5 Witch Hunt
6 Woman Of The World

Personnel:

Donald Byrd (vocals, trumpet, fluegelhorn); Fonce Mizell (vocals, trumpet, clavinet); Fred Perren (vocals, ARP synthesizer); Larry
Mizell (vocals); Roger Glenn (flute); Jerry Peters (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); David T. Walker (guitar); Chuck Rainey (electric
bass); Harvey Mason (drums); King Erricson (congas); Stephanie Spruill (percussion). Producer: Larry Mizell. Reissue producers:
Michael Cuscuna, Tom Evered. Recorded at the Sound Factory, Hollywood, California from June 13-15, 1973. This is part of the Blue
Note Records Rare Groove series.




Enjoy ;^)