BYRD & BRASS
Charlie Byrd Trio
Annapolis Brass Quintet
On January 11, 1987, BYRD & BRASS performed at the Reston Community Center in suburban Washington, DC. The concert was recorded & broadcast on
National Public Radio's 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..."
National Public Radio's 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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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
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
"Byrd and Brass": Swinging Freely
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
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 the mid-1980s, performing more than 50 concerts together across the United States, and recording two CDs: BYRD & BRASS Christmas with BYRD & BRASS |
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Charlie Byrd, (Charles Lee), American jazz musician (born September 16, 1925, Chuckatuck, Virginia, U.S.—died December 2, 1999, Annapolis, Maryland), was schooled in both jazz and classical music; he played modern jazz on the unamplified Spanish guitar before the hit Stan Getz–Charlie Byrd album Jazz Samba launched the bossa nova fad in 1962. Byrd went on to fuse jazz and Brazilian music in scores of graceful, lyrical albums.
Reference books such as Who’s Who in America and Leonard Feather’s Encylopedia of Jazz lists 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 has written enough music to be called a composer, and he could be described as a club owner because at times he has payed that role successfully too. As a result of his tours throughout the world, sometimes as a U.S. State Department cultural envoy, Byrd could also be called an ambassador of good will. Speaking metaphorically, you could describe him as a builder of bridges because an important aspect of his career has been making connections--or bridges--between different kinds of music.
Few artists have succeeded as well as he has in connecting the world of classical music with that of jazz. After establishing himself as a jazz performer, he studied the clsassical guitar with such distinguished teachers as Andrés Segovia and then made the acoustic guitar a viable jazz instrument. Serving as a link between the popular music of Latin America and audiences in the United States has been one of Byrd’s greatest accomplishments. He is generally considered the principal instigator of the bossa nova craze that swept North America in the 1960’s.
With this collaboration by the Annapolis Brass Quintet and the Charlie Byrd Trio, BYRD & BRASS forged a link between jazz and the world of chamber music.