Charlie Byrd

Charlie Byrd ( born September 16, 1925 in Suffolk, Virginia; † December 2, 1999 in Annapolis, Maryland ) was an American jazz guitarist.

Life

Charlie Byrd, actually Charles L. Byrd, was in the 1950s one of the most popular guitarists in the United States, beginning on the East Coast, and later in the Americas, with a legendary reputation was due to his concerts and his first record releases. Byrd became famous in 1962 in and outside America, as his name was inextricably linked with the music of bossa nova, a modified Samba from Brazil, which triggered a true bossa nova boom in the United States. Charlie Byrd was both in jazz and in classical music at home and had known resistant to both. He was one of the instrumentalists, the successful jazz and classical music combined with each other. He was even at that time the only classical guitarist in the jazz scene. Since 1963, played in his trio, his younger brother Joe "Gene " Byrd.

Work

His repertoire of the classical guitar repertoire ranged from the Spanish Renaissance music to songs from Central and Latin America in the 19th and 20th century. Byrd's study of classical finger technique on the unreinforced Spanish guitar enabled him to play compositions, which rivaled other classical guitarists in any way. He soon became a musician who also scored on a classical guitar as a solo guitarist considerable success.

In addition, he turned to the technique of classical guitar in various jazz styles and tried to merge European traditions with African-American jazz attributes. Then there was a deep understanding of the blues, which he had learned to love and appreciate life. He built numerous foreign compositions with different musical styles in his repertoire and was due to his ingenuity a stylist who always sounded like himself - just like Charlie Byrd. Its highly developed Spanish and Latin American art on a classical guitar enabled him, as probably no other guitarists before him, to open up new areas in jazz. He joined Brazilian rhythms with North American jazz, which meant that he played a key role in the propagation of Bossa Nova in the United States.

Charlie Byrd, who both played first on the acoustic and the electric guitar remained, later, with a few exceptions, of the unreinforced guitar because it considered them viable held acoustically as a solo instrument in small ensembles, which his performances often have a quasi chamber music character lent. The fact that he remained resistant to apply the playing techniques of the Spanish guitar on the Jazz, at the time was quite unusual, begat of great self- confidence and success with the audience proved him right.

Disco printing specifications

  • Jazz Recital ( Savoy, 1957) with Al Lucas
  • Byrd 's Word ( OJC, 1958)
  • Mr Guitar ( OJC, 1959) with Keter Betts
  • The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd (1960), with Keter Betts and Buddy Depp Schmidt
  • Blues Sonata (1961 ), with Keter Betts and Buddy Depp Schmidt
  • Three Guitars ( Concord, 1974) with Herb Ellis, Johnny Rae
  • You Hot Club De Concord ( Concord, 1995) Hendrik Meurkens, Frank Vignola, Michael Moore
  • Stan Getz: Jazz Samba ( Verve, 1962)
  • Ken Peplowski: It's a Lonesome Old Town ( Concord, 1995)
  • In the series ' Jazz Plus ' was released in November 2012, the CD "Jazz Plus: Latin Impressions ( Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros ) '. The booklet contains complete facsimiles of the original LP artwork and all discography information on the recordings.
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