Donald Byrd- Kofi (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)Label: Blue Note Reissued 10 4 2024, Originally released 1995 Drawn from two sessions recorded in December 1969 and December 1970, and not first released until 1995, Kofi found Donald Byrd in the early stages of his transformation from top notch hard bop trumpeter to fusion pioneer. Byrd had already begun to move away from a pure hard bop sound with his album Fancy Free in the Spring of 1969, and the two Kofi sessions straddled the recording of his

Stuffed Leopard

Lady MacBeth in Chains

On Night Thoughts

There's An Empty Grave Waiting

See It Through (Interlude)

So Hot (Wash Away All of My Tears)

which adds it's own angular sounds to the acoustic guitar and bass

& with the right bionics

Here Comes Everybody

Cats And Dogs 4:05

Green Rocky Road

voyeurism ('Mr