The Blackbyrds

Donald Byrd Post

The New Centrist (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

[Saw him a few years ago on the Jersey shore. He's getting up there but still has some power in his lungs. Enjoy these tunes from the 60s and 70s. ] Bio by Barry Kernfeld from The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, via Hard Bob homepage: Donald Byrd. Born in Detroit in 1932, his studies at Wayne [...]

The Blackbyrds, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

Review: It's said that if you wait long enough, then every band from your youth – with certain obvious exceptions – will come around again. The Blackbyrds appear never to have gone away.

V/A, Various Artists: Carolina Funk

prefix (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

The beat-digging purveyors at Gerald "Jazzman" Short's Jazzman Records are naturally expected to lead the field in deep-funk excavations. The label has met and exceeded many of those expectations with its recent series of regional American funk comps: Midwest Funk, Florida Funk, Texas Funk and now Carolina Funk, reissued domestically courtesy of Stones Throw offshoot Now Again. As with the preceding...

What's on: Monday May 12

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

• EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS DAILY LISTINGS

• What's on: Monday May 12 - Edinburgh Evening News

Protokoll + Designer Drugs

BIGSTEREO (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008

We’ve been so all over Designer Drugs it is not even funny. We’re addicted. Every remix is better than the last. They recently hooked up with IHEARTSCOMIX and did a remix for Protokoll which was found on Franki Chan’s Scion Mix Tape thing that everybody is kinda nuts for. Protokoll - “Moving Forward” (Designer Drugs Remix) [...]

This Is NOT Sadie Hawkins Day

Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008

Sadie Hawkins Day is in November . Somehow, the 20th century Dogpatch invention of Al Capp's Li'l Abner has gotten blended with a much earlier tradition . It is, however, Superman's birthday . (Which begs the question, "What do you get for someone who can change the course of mighty rivers?" *** From Len Wein's blog : George Lucas in Love *** My favorite Amazon pitch of late: Dear Amazon.com Customer,...

The Blackbyrds - City Life

Pound for Pound (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008

The Blackbyrds, "Rock Creek Park" ( YSI link ) The Blackbyrds, "Happy Music" ( YSI link ) The Blackbyrds, "Flying High" ( YSI link ) Man, we've been a little bad lately and it's time to to stop that with some great music about being in the city, hanging out in the park, falling in love, being in love, all the good things. We're gonna get out ahead of the disco era, go to its funk roots today with...

Nas - God's Son [The Samples]

Hip-Hop Is Read (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008

Released in 2002, 'God's Son' is arguably Nas' most introspective album to date. Sure, it's got some great singles like 'Made You Look' and 'I Can' and the professionally-worked diss track 'Last Real Nigga Alive', but it's the emotional and deep tracks that I fell in love with. 'Get Down' is one of my favorite Nas tracks, as he divulges into street narratives over smoothly laid James Brown funk samples....

Allmusic's Top Reissues of 2007

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/20/2007

The Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable: A Retrospective 1990-2006 Bobby Bare - Drunk & Crazy (Bonus Tracks) Black Sabbath - Dio Years The Blackbyrds - Happy Music: The Best of the Blackbyrds Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean (Bonus Tracks) Willie Colon - OG: Original Gangster Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (Deluxe Edition) Betty Davis - Betty Davis [...]

Sample #120

Egremont (Free subscription) | 10/04/2007

#120 - Gang Starr/ The Blackbyrds Gang Starr - Say Your Prayers (from 'Step In The Arena', Cooltempo, 1991) The Blackbyrds- Wilford's Gone (from 'Cornbread, Earl and Me' OST, Fantasy, 1975)

Premier vs. Beatminerz: Who Flipped It Better?

Soul Sides (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007

The Blackbyrds: Wilford's Gone From Cornbread, Earl and Me Soundtrack (Fantasy, 1975). Also on Lovebyrds . Gang Starr: Say Your Prayers From Step Into the Arena (Chrysalis, 1991) The Roots: Silent Treatment (Beatminerz Remix) From "Silent Treatment" 12" (Geffen, 1995) I've had this idea for a long time but had forgotten about it until I had cause to listen to Gang Starr's Step Into the Arena the other...

Happy Music: The Best of the Blackbyrds (Music Review)

PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 07/12/2007

The Blackbyrds' failure on the smooth jazz unfortunately takes away from their legacy as a funk act.

Wha’chu Gon’ Play Now? - Black Music Month

Stereo Describes My Scenario (Free subscription) | 06/04/2007

As Shay reminds us, June is Black music month. Well, over here, every month is Black music month…and f’real-f’real, if it's American music, then it's all Black music in the first place. Almost all. I’m not sure C&W is a descendant of Gospel or the Blues (but if it's not, it's a [...]