{"product_id":"donald-byrd-places-and-spaces-2021-blue-note-classic-vinyl-series","title":"Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces (2021 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonald Byrd - \u003cem\u003ePlaces and Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2021 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series 180g (3596800, Kevin Gray\/Optimal)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonald Byrd started his Blue Note career in 1958 as a hard bop trumpeter recording alongside Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Hank Mobley. By 1972, when he began working with Larry Mizell, the music had changed completely. Mizell produced \u003cem\u003eBlack Byrd\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStreet Lady\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStepping Into Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e before this, each album moving further from jazz convention and deeper into funk, soul and studio production. \u003cem\u003ePlaces and Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e was their fourth collaboration and their most refined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarry Mizell wrote or co-wrote five of the seven tracks. Fonce Mizell, his brother, co-produced, played clavinet and acoustic piano, and sang background vocals. The rhythm section was Los Angeles studio players at their peak: Chuck Rainey's Fender bass, Harvey Mason's drums, Skip Scarborough's Rhodes. Wade Marcus arranged the strings and conducted them. The result is music that sounds both meticulous and loose, every element placed precisely while the groove sustains the illusion that nobody is trying too hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wind Parade\" opens Side A with one of the most immediately recognisable introductions in jazz-funk: Byrd's flugelhorn over strings and Rainey's bass line. \"Dominoes\" has been the album's most sampled track. \"Change (Makes You Want to Hustle)\" bridges disco and jazz-funk in a way that only this specific moment in 1975 could produce. Side B opens with the title track, Byrd and Mizell's most spacious collaboration. \"Night Whistler\" features James Carter whistling over the ensemble. \"Just My Imagination\" closes the album with the Strong\/Whitfield Temptations piece rearranged through the Mizell production filter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the 2021 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series 180g pressing, mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, pressed at Optimal Media GmbH.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Note","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43617117306939,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/71eiuLe6g8L._UF894_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1781217041","url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/products\/donald-byrd-places-and-spaces-2021-blue-note-classic-vinyl-series","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}