Charlie Byrd
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Biography
[Edit]Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit — applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences. Born into a musical family, Byrd experienced his first brush with greatness while a teenager in France during World War II, playing with his idol Django Reinhardt. After some postwar gigs with Sol Yaged, Joe Marsala and Freddie Slack, Byrd temporarily abandoned jazz to study classical guitar with Sophocles Papas in 1950 and Andrés Segovia in 1954. However he re-emerged later in the decade gigging around the Washington D.C. area in jazz settings, often splitting his sets into distinct jazz and classical segments. He started recording for Savoy as a leader in 1957, and also recorded with the Woody Herman Band in 1958-59. A tour of South America under the aegis of the U.S. State Department in 1961, proved to be a revelation, for it was in Brazil that Byrd discovered the emerging bossa nova movement. Once back in D.C., he played some bossa nova tapes to Stan Getz, who then convinced Verve's Creed Taylor to record an album of Brazilian music with himself and Byrd. That album, Jazz Samba, became a pop hit in 1962 on the strength of the single "Desafinado" and launched the bossa nova wave in North America. Thanks to the bossa nova, several albums for Riverside followed, including the defining Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros, and he was able to land a major contract with Columbia, though the records from that association often consisted of watered-down easy listening pop. In 1973, he formed the group Great Guitars with Herb Ellis and Barney Kessel and also that year, wrote an instruction manual for the guitar that has become widely used. From 1974 onward, Byrd recorded for the Concord Jazz label in a variety of settings, including sessions with Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank. He died December 2, 1999 after a long bout with cancer. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi
Title: The Return of the Great Guitars
Artist: Charlie Byrd, Herb Ellis, Mundell Lowe
Title: The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Latin, Bop
Title: Bossa Nova Pelos Passaros + Latin Impressions
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Latin, Bop
Title: Guitar Music and Songs of Merrie Olde England (Remastered)
Artist: Charlie Byrd, Richard Levitt
Genre: Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: 7days presents Jazz Classics: Charlie Byrd - King of Bossa Nova
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Blues, Jazz, World Music
Title: Bamba Samba Bossa Nova (Digitally Remastered)
Artist: Charlie Byrd
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Latin
Title: Moody Woody Featuring "Summer Sequence" (Digitally Remastered)
Artist: Charlie Byrd, Guitar Woody Herman
Genre: Jazz
Collections
Title: Jazz Moods: Twilight In Rio
Genre: Latin
Title: Jazz for a Sunday Morning - Relaxing Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz for a Romantic Evening
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz for a Sunday Morning
Genre: Jazz
Title: 50 Essential Jazz Classics
Genre: Jazz
Title: Hot Music of Brazil
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Vintage Children's Easter Music
Genre: Kids
Title: Jazz Moods: Sounds of Autumn
Genre: Jazz
Title: Brazilian Nights, Vol.2
Genre: Latin
Title: Get Lost in the Magic of Ballroom Dancing
Genre: Jazz
Title: Six-string Heroes
Genre: Jazz
Title: Everest Jazz Digest
Title: Everest Jazz Digest (Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Great Jazz Soloists - Finest Performances
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon, Vol. 2 - The Guitars
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Guitar Greats
Genre: Jazz
Title: Introduction to Jazz Guitar (Reissue)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Giants of Jazz: Guitar
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Guitar Greats
Genre: Jazz
Title: Romantic Guitar Songs
Genre: World Music
Title: Boardwalk Party: 50 Old Fashioned Jazz Songs
Genre: Jazz
Title: Mad Music Presents Swingin' Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best of Brazilian Bossa Nova & Samba
Genre: World Music
Title: Number 1's: Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Brazilian World Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: Lounge Cocktails
Genre: Jazz
Title: Just Instrumental 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Jazz Story 9
Genre: Jazz
Title: Brazilian Nights, Vol.1
Genre: Latin
Title: Brazilian Nights, Vol.3
Genre: Latin
Title: Copa Beach
Genre: Latin
Title: Late Night Jazz - The Essential Late Night Collection
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Is Love
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best of Jazz Songs
Genre: Jazz
Title: Brazilian Carnival Dance
Genre: World Music
Title: Bailando En Carnaval
Title: Carnaval Carnaval. Vol. 1
Genre: Latin
Title: La Musica De Samba, Batucada, Bossanova
Genre: Latin
Title: Bailando Samba, Bossanova y Batucada
Genre: Latin
Title: Jazz Guitar Legends (Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Siempre Brasil
Genre: Latin
Title: Let There Be Jazz! Jazz Party
Genre: Jazz
Title: Sizzling Mambo Classics
Genre: World Music, Latin
Title: Ballroom Dance Music: Samba
Genre: Dancefloor, Samba, Latin, Dance Pop
Title: The Colors of Latin Jazz: Shades of Jobim
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best in Jazz Guitar
Genre: Jazz
Title: Novabossa - Red Hot On Verve
Title: Cocktail Bar Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Most Relaxing Jazz Guitar Music In the Universe
Genre: Jazz
Title: Compact Disc Club - Big Latin CD 1
Genre: Latin
Title: Latin Dance Collection (CD2)
Title: Hit Box Latino (CD3)
Genre: Dancefloor, Pop
Title: Playboy Jazz: Cocktail Mix
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Essential Jazz (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Bossa & Cool Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Jazz Guitar (CD2)
Title: Tropical Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Café Vol. 4 (Chillin Guitar Classics In Lounge)
Genre: Lounge
Title: Bar Jazz Cafe
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Jazz, Funk
Featuring albums
Title: The Best of Stan Getz (20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection)
Artist: Stan Getz
Genre: Jazz, World Music
Title: Woody Allen - Music from His Movies, Vol. 5
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Mojo Jazz Present Family Affair (Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Latin
Title: The Girl From Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
Genre: Jazz, Samba, World Music, Latin, Bossanova
