Best of the Concord Years

Charlie Byrd | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B00004YNEK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,943 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

2. As Long As I Live

3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

4. Cottontail

5. Soft Lights And Sweet Music

6. St. Louis Blues

7. Solitude

8. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan

9. Candlelights

10. This Can't Be Love

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Saquarema

2. Charlotte's Fancy

3. Desafinada

4. Gitanerias

5. Vou Vivendo

6. Triste

7. Na Praia (At The Seaside)

8. Dindi

9. The Moon Was Yellow

10. El Noy De La Mare

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Concord Jazz presents awesome selections via Byrd", October 28, 2000

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This review is from: Best of the Concord Years (Audio CD)

Concord Jazz is delighted to present some highlights from the last twenty years of Charlie Byrd's extraordinarily prolific, creative and influential recording career. With "Best of Concord Years", you'll appreciate the melodic and tasteful guitar playing by this legend that extends far beyond his obvious ground-breaking contributions to jazz history...which includes pioneering the application of acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and bringing the Brazilian "bossa nova" to the North American masses.

Byrd is equally at home in a variety of musical styles and settings, from bebop to Grappeli-Reinhardt "Hot Club" inspired swing, to classical-crossover, to a myriad of Brazilian music styles, putting this in laymen's terms.

Charlie Byrd was simply one of jazz most versatile guitar masters ever to come along, and we're glad he did, as Concord Records has preserved his lagacy...listen to icon Charlie Byrd and see if you don't agree..."THE BEST OF THE CONCORD YEARS"...is Great Jazz in a time-capsule!

Total Time: Disc One 63:32 on 15 Tracks & Disc Two 63:07 on 16 Tracks...Concord Jazz CCD2-4932...(2000)