Альбомы исполнителя
Blues Sonata
2001 · альбом
Byrd By The Sea
2000 · альбом
Byrd's Word
2000 · альбом
For Louis
2000 · альбом
My Inspiration: Music Of Brazil
1999 · альбом
Mr. Guitar
1998 · альбом
Classical Byrd
1997 · альбом
The Guitar Artistry Of Charlie Byrd
1997 · альбом
Latin Byrd
1996 · альбом
The Return Of The Great Guitars
1996 · альбом
Jazz 'n' Samba
1995 · альбом
Forever Cool
2022 · альбом
All that Jazz, Vol. 146: Conversation with Byrd
2022 · альбом
Snag It
2021 · альбом
Bossa Nova Pelos Pássaros / Bossa Nova by the Birds
2020 · альбом
Charlie Byrd Trio: Live in New Orleans
2015 · альбом
Blues For Night People
2011 · альбом
Girl From Ipanema
2010 · сборник
Homage To Jobim
2005 · альбом
Byrd & Brazil
2004 · альбом
Great Chefs, Great Music
2003 · сборник
Byrd Song
2003 · альбом
Solo Flight
2003 · альбом
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Биография
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