Donald Byrd: Byrd's Eye View LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) music “Ballads” is often seen as

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tenor saxophone master and composer Wayne Shorter recorded The All Seeing Eye

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Donald Byrd: Byrd's Eye View LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) music “Ballads” is often seen asBlue Note, 1956 Recorded in 1955 for producer Tom Wilsons short lived Boston based label Transition Records, Byrds Eye View was trumpeter Donald Byrds first issued recording as a leader. The date presented Byrd at the helm of what was then the current line up of The Jazz Messengers with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Horace Silver, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Art Blakey. Local Boston area trumpeter Joe Gordon joins the band for some