Artist: Donald Byrd
Title: Places And Spaces
Year: 1975
Label: Blue Note
Format: Vinyl LP (Original)
Flwrpt Rating of this Record: 4.0/5.0
Review
Places And Spaces is one of Donald Byrd’s best albums. Although during the time of its release (1975), some of his followers were not happy with this commercial attempt. They were used to traditional jazz from Byrd. However, the Mizell Brothers produced this album to a T…it’s waaaay ahead of its time! This record has a really dreamy sound to it, probably because of the spacey vocals, but it helps add to the perfected laying technique that the Mizell brothers are known for. Beautiful arrangements on this one, check it out…
Check out the sound!
Wind Parade
(Fallin’ Like) Dominoes
You And Music
Design
This is a really nice photographic album cover. Very strong in it’s use of the grid, along with the repeated imagery paced with random shots of the sky. The black backdrop helps to ground this piece as a whole, visually keeps it all together. I’m on the fence about the vertical type treatment, as well as it being repeated…but I do like the use of a very thin typeface, helps keep the pictures as the focal point. (Not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing)…
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3 Comments
beautiful album, and it features an original cut of one of my favorite songs, All the Places by Pete Rock & CL Smooth. Great post.
love this album cover!
I love Donald Byrd and the fact that I found some cheap records of him in NYC .