I'm Tryin' To Get Home Donald Byrd

• 1 Brother Isaac 04:53
• 2 Noah 06:58
• 3 I'm Tryin' To Get Home 07:01
• 4 I've Longed And Searched For My Mother 08:32
• 5 March Children 07:16
• 6 Pearly Gates 02:37
• Total Runtime 37:17

Info for I'm Tryin' To Get Home

„I’m Trying To Get Home album for sale by Donald Byrd was released Jun 20, 1989 on the Blue Note label. A follow-up to trumpeter Donald Byrd's hit A New Perspective, this album also features an eight-voice choir conducted by Coleridge Perkinson and arrangements by Duke Pearson and the leader.

I'm Trying To Get Home buy CD music The vocalists have a larger role than in the earlier date and Byrd's quintet (with tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and pianist Herbie Hancock) is augmented by organist Freddie Roach, guitarist Grant Green and a dozen brass players. I'm Trying To Get Home songs But despite some strong moments, the date (which resulted in no real hits) does not quite reach the heights of A New Perspective although it has plenty of interesting moments.“ (Scott Yanow)

Donald Byrd, trumpet, flugelhorn Joe Ferrante, trumpet Jimmy Owens, trumpet Ernie Royal, trumpet Clark Terry, trumpet Snooky Young, trumpet Jimmy Cleveland, trombone Henry Cocker, trombone J.J. Johnson, trombone Benny Powell, trombone Jim Buffington, french horn Bob Northern, french horn Don Butterfield, tuba Stanley Turrentine, tenor saxophone Herbie Hancock, piano Freddie Roach, organ Grant Green, guitar Bob Cranshaw, bass Grady Tate, drums Duke Pearson, arranger Coleridge Perkinson, director, conductor

Recorded from December 17-18, 1964 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs Engineered and mastered by Rudy Van Gelder
Produced by Alfred Lion

Digitally remastered

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