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Donald Byrd opens the solo sequence with two choruses on trumpet, the first of 5 solos on the recording. Taken at a medium-up swing tempo of 176 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in B♭, the improvisation flows with assured, relaxed momentum. Donald Byrd opens with two trumpet choruses of bright, confident playing, followed by Clifford Jordan's two tenor saxophone choruses of characteristically dark-toned intensity. Recorded for the album Paul Chambers Quintet in 1957, the performance captures Donald Byrd at 24 to 25 years old. Beauteous is an original composition by bassist Paul Chambers, written for his second Blue Note album as a leader, the Paul Chambers Quintet, recorded on May 19, 1957.
Donald Byrd was 24 to 25 years old at the time.
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