Das Bestattungsunternehmen hat den Tod Donald Byrds inzwischen bestätigt (die Familie noch immer nicht), jetzt sind auch die Nachrufe der grossen Zeitungen erschienen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/arts/music/donald-byrd-renegade-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-80.html?hpw&_r=0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/donald-byrd-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-80/2013/02/11/add73d4a-721a-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-donald-byrd-20130212,0,1752286.story
Eine schöne Episode über Coltrane, die im NYTime-Obit auftaucht:
In his 1998 Cornell lecture Mr. Byrd said he had been inspired by musicians who changed music, notably John Coltrane.
“I met him in the 11th grade in Detroit,” he said. “I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that’s where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy’s band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, ‘You want to play?’
“So he played piano, and I soloed. I never thought that six years later we would be recording together, and that we would be doing all of this stuff. The point is that you never know what happens in life.”
Und weil die Alben viel zu selten erwähnt werden … grosse Empfehlung für das 2CD-Set mit den Transition-Aufnahmen von Donald Byrd/Doug Watkins!
Hier das Cover der Doppel-CD:
Sie ist vergriffen, aber noch aufzutreiben.
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