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"Concord Jazz presents awesome selections via Byrd", October 28, 2000
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)
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