BYRD & BRASS
Charlie Byrd Trio
Annapolis Brass Quintet
January 11, 1987
BYRD & BRASS IN CONCERT
Reston, Virginia
NPR LIVE BROADCAST
Jazz in Performance Series
"Welcome to the American Jazz Radio Festival. I'm Michael Bourne with you each week for National Public Radio's Jazz in Performance Series. This week we present a jazz guitarist who studied with Segovia, and also America's first full time performing brass ensemble. The setting tonight is the Reston Community Center in
suburban Washington, DC, and the artists are Byrd & Brass--
that's the Charlie Byrd Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet..."
BYRD & BRASS IN CONCERT
Reston, Virginia
NPR LIVE BROADCAST
Jazz in Performance Series
"Welcome to the American Jazz Radio Festival. I'm Michael Bourne with you each week for National Public Radio's Jazz in Performance Series. This week we present a jazz guitarist who studied with Segovia, and also America's first full time performing brass ensemble. The setting tonight is the Reston Community Center in
suburban Washington, DC, and the artists are Byrd & Brass--
that's the Charlie Byrd Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet..."
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1987
CHARLIE BYRD TRIO
Charlie Byrd, guitar; Chuck Redd, drums; Joe Byrd, bass
ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET
Robert Suggs & David Cran, trumpet; Arthur Brooks, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone; Robert Posten, bass trombone/tuba
CHARLIE BYRD TRIO
Charlie Byrd, guitar; Chuck Redd, drums; Joe Byrd, bass
ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET
Robert Suggs & David Cran, trumpet; Arthur Brooks, horn; Wayne Wells, trombone; Robert Posten, bass trombone/tuba
"Byrd and Brass": Swinging Freely
THE WASHINGTON POST
September 26, 1986
by Mike Joyce
THE WASHINGTON POST
September 26, 1986
by Mike Joyce
GUITARIST Charlie Byrd always wanted to play a brass instrument, but as he confesses in the notes to his new album, "Byrd & Brass," his attempts to master the trumpet in his youth met with little success. So now he's gone out and done the next best thing: recorded a thoroughly enjoyable album with the Annapolis Brass Quintet. READ MORE
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Charlie Byrd Trio
Annapolis Brass Quintet began collaboration as Byrd & Brass in 1985. Together they performed more than 50 concerts and recorded two CDs. BYRD & BRASS Christmas with Byrd & Brass < click photos for lightbox > |
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Charlie Byrd was schooled in both jazz and classical music. Byrd played modern jazz on an unamplified Spanish guitar even before the Stan Getz–Charlie Byrd Jazz Samba album. That 1962 album launched the bossa nova fad. Byrd went on to fuse jazz and Brazilian music in dozens of graceful, lyrical albums.
Reference books such as Who’s Who in America and Leonard Feather’s Encylopedia of Jazz list Charlie Byrd’s occupation as “musician” or “guitarist.” It is as a performer on the guitar, of course, that he is best known, but he composed enough music to be called a composer, and he could be described as a club owner because at times he played that role successfully too. As a result of his world tours, sometimes under the auspices the U.S. State Department, Byrd was a also a cultural envoy and an ambassador of good will.
Most significantly, Charlie Byrd was a builder of bridges--making connections between various musical genres and diverse audiences. With Byrd & Brass, the Charlie Byrd Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet forged a new bridge between jazz and brass chamber music.
Reference books such as Who’s Who in America and Leonard Feather’s Encylopedia of Jazz list Charlie Byrd’s occupation as “musician” or “guitarist.” It is as a performer on the guitar, of course, that he is best known, but he composed enough music to be called a composer, and he could be described as a club owner because at times he played that role successfully too. As a result of his world tours, sometimes under the auspices the U.S. State Department, Byrd was a also a cultural envoy and an ambassador of good will.
Most significantly, Charlie Byrd was a builder of bridges--making connections between various musical genres and diverse audiences. With Byrd & Brass, the Charlie Byrd Trio and the Annapolis Brass Quintet forged a new bridge between jazz and brass chamber music.
Much of the BYRD & BRASS repertoire. as well as the entire Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library, is available for study and performance through the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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