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The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd

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Released
  
1960

Length
  
45:49

Release date
  
1963

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
1960 Washington, D.C.

Artist
  
Charlie Byrd

Label
  
Original Jazz Classics

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The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd (1959)
  
Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard (1960)

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Charlie Byrd albums, Jazz albums

The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1960 and released on the Riverside label in 1963.The album was first released on the Washington Records Offbeat imprint as Charlie's Choice: Jazz at the Showboat, Vol. 4 but only received limited distribution prior to Byrd signing with Riverside.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The melodic music is pleasing (if not too substantial), predictable and reasonably enjoyable".

Track listing

  1. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) - 1:57
  2. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) - 2:53
  3. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 3:47
  4. "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt) - 3:04
  5. "Ev'rything I've Got" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:22
  6. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 2:45
  7. "Django" (John Lewis) - 3:25
  8. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 1:49
  9. "The House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) - 5:30
  10. "Ring Them Harmonics" (Keter Betts) - 3:51
  11. "Taboo" (Margarita Lecuona, Bob Russell) - 9:45
  12. "To Ginny" (Charlie Byrd) - 5:25

Personnel

  • Charlie Byrd - guitar
  • Keter Betts - bass
  • Buddy Deppenschmidt - drums

    • Songs

    1Taking a Chance on Love1:58
    2Moonlight in Vermont2:54
    3Speak Low3:47

    References

    The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd Wikipedia
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