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11/19/25

Donald Byrd

 
 

 A New Perspective

 
 
Donald Byrd – A New Perspective

Blue Note records 1963 – BST 84124


notes:

A New Perspective is a 1964 studio album by jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd.
 It was released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4124 and BST 84124.
The album features a fusion of jazz with spirituals, and features a 
vocal choir singing wordlessly to accompany the instruments. 


credits:
    
    Donald Byrd – trumpet
    Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
    Herbie Hancock – piano
    Kenny Burrell – guitar
    Donald Bestvibraphone, vocals
    Butch Warren – bass
    Lex Humphries – drums
    Duke Pearson – arranger
    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – choir direction
    Unidentified vocalists: Four men (two basses, two tenors) 
     and four women (two altos, two sopranos)

    Recorded    January 12, 1963
    Studio    Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
   Rudy Van Gelder – recording
   Producer – Alfred Lion


   tracklist:

   A1        Elijah 9:21
Written-By – Byrd*
A2        Beast Of Burden 10:07
Written-By – Byrd*
B1        Cristo Redentor 5:43
Written-By – Duke Pearson
B2        The Black Disciple 8:12
Written-By – Byrd*
B3        Chant  7:31
Written-By – Pearson*