Donald Byrd - "Byrd's Eye View" Tone Poet label_Ribbon Music Under threat of being dropped

Under threat of being dropped by Food Records

Awake represented a high-water mark for Scott Hansen

Beck‚ Sex Bob-Omb songs

without bassist Kevin Ray who parted ways with the band in December 2020

It's their second album of new studio recordings within the past 12 months

Donald Byrd - "Byrd's Eye View" Tone Poet label_Ribbon Music Under threat of being droppedRecorded in 1955 for producer Tom Wilson's short lived Boston based label Transition Records, Byrd's Eye View was trumpeter Donald Byrd's first issued recording as a leader. The date presented Byrd at the helm of what was then the current line up of The Jazz Messengers with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Horace Silver, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Art Blakey. Local Boston area trumpeter Joe Gordon joins the band for some friendly brass