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Fancy Free (Donald Byrd album)

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Released
  
January 1970

Length
  
39:10

Artist
  
Donald Byrd

Producer
  
Duke Pearson

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion

Recorded
  
May 9 & June 6, 1969

Fancy Free (1969)
  
Electric Byrd (1969)

Release date
  
1969

Label
  
Blue Note Records

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Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Similar
  
Donald Byrd albums, Jazz albums

Fancy Free is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, recorded and released on Blue Note Records in 1970. In 1993, it appeared for the first time on a digital support, currently out-of-print, and it has not been reissued yet.

Contents

Donald byrd fancy free


Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars and its review by Steve Huey states: "Recorded just a few months after Miles Davis' In a Silent Way, Fancy Free finds Byrd leading a large ensemble prominently featuring Frank Foster on tenor, Lew Tabackin or Jerry Dodgion on flute, and several percussionists. But the most important piece of the puzzle is Duke Pearson's electric piano, the first time Byrd utilized the instrument."

Track listing

  1. "Fancy Free" (Donald Byrd) – 12:06
  2. "I Love the Girl" (Byrd) – 8:48
  3. "The Uptowner" (Mitch Farber) – 9:16
  4. "Weasil" (Charles Hendricks) – 9:00

Note

  • Recorded on May 9 (#2, 4) and June 6, 1969. (#1, 3)

    • Personnel

  • Donald Byrd – trumpet
  • Frank Foster – tenor and soprano saxophone
  • Julian Priester – trombone
  • Lew Tabackin (#2, 4), Jerry Dodgion (#1, 3) – flute
  • Duke Pearson – electric piano
  • Jimmy Ponder – guitar
  • Roland Wilson – bass
  • Joe Chambers (#2, 4), Leo Morris (#1, 3) – drums
  • Nat Bettis, John H. Robinson Jr.- percussion

    • Songs

    1Fancy Free12:07
    2I Love the Girl8:48
    3The Uptowner9:17

    References

    Fancy Free (Donald Byrd album) Wikipedia
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