Caricatures (Donald Byrd album)
Caricatures is an album by American trumpeter Donald Byrd recorded and released on the Blue Note label in 1976.[1] It was Byrd's final album for the label and his fifth straight release produced by Larry Mizell.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Rob Theakston awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Caricatures serves its primary purpose of being a jazz fusion record to make both people dance and purists wince at the notion that jazz can fuse with other elements and achieve success".[2] This comes across as a negative but indeed Byrd had been creating jazz to cross over to other audiences as early as his seminal 1963 release "A New Perspective". This album has a slicker, more produced feel to it than his previous '70s albums but contains fine performances from Patrice Rushen, John Rowin and Scott Edwards.
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Track listing
- All compositions by Larry Mizell Byrd except as indicated
- "Dance Band" (Larry Mizell, Fonce Mizell) - 6:13
- "Wild Life" (Mizell, Mizell) - 5:59
- "Caricatures" - 5:10
- "Science Funktion" (Mizell, Mizell) 4:50
- "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, William "Mickey" Stevenson) - 4:43
- "Return of the King" (Mizell, Mizell) - 4:51
- "Onward 'Til Morning" - 3:47
- "Tell Me" (Donald Byrd, Larry Mizell) - 4:20
- Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California in April–May, 1976
Personnel
- Donald Byrd - trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals
- Oscar Brashear - trumpet
- George Bohanon - trombone
- Gary Bartz, Ernie Watts - saxophones
- Jerry Peters, Patrice Rushen, Skip Scarborough - keyboards
- Fonce Mizell - keyboards, trumpet, backing vocals
- John Rowin, Bernard Beloyd Taylor, David T. Walker - guitar
- Scott Edwards (tracks 2-8), James Jamerson (track 1) - electric bass
- Alphonse Mouzon (tracks 1-5), Harvey Mason (track 1) - drums
- Mayuto Correa, Stephanie Spruill - percussion
- Mildred Lane (tracks 2 & 5), Kay Haith (tracks 3 & 7) - lead vocals
- Theresa Mitchell, Vernessa Mitchell, Larry Mizell - backing vocals
- Wade Marcus - string arrangement
- Unidentified strings
References
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