Donald Byrd RIP

Bill McCloskey · From: Nanuet, NY

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/arts/music/donald-byrd-renegade-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-80.html?ref=music&_r=0

I liked Donald Byrd when I first got into jazz but he lost me when he became more commercial. Still, a good if not great jazz player and innovator in his own right.

robert kramer · From: Nashville TN

Donald Byrd wrote my favorite song of all time: "Tanya, the Girl Upstairs." My favorite version is Dexter Gordon's from his 1978 LP "Manhattan Symphonie" (Columbia). "Tanya" and the entire LP is on iTunes - well worth playing the samples. Here's an excerpt of a live version with George Cables on piano who was also on the Columbia date:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P35DDgTameE

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