Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce Columbia Columbia (label) Jazz (CD, LP) Wonderful work from the team of Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce! Byrd is at his youthful best here – blowing with a soulful imagination that's surprising, given his young age, and honed to a modern edge by the arrangements of Gryce.

This track was not released with the original LP, Don Byrd-Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab, but appeared for the first time on a Columbia anthology entitled Jazz Omnibus (and not on CD until ) along with selections from many other artists associated with that label, including Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, J.J. Johnson, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey.

Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce headed one of the more individual, unpretentiously inventive mid Fifties modern small combos. The music and solos are in the hard bop tradition, but melded with this fire is a concern for new, challenging, often lyric thematic material and flexible structural devices.

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Alto saxophonist arranger Gigi Gryce and trumpeter Donald Byrd's innovative, but unfortunately short lived Jazz Lab Quintet recorded several sides during , seven of which were released on this excellent Columbia album. Track Titles Speculation Over the Rainbow Nica's Tempo Little Niles Sans Souci I Remember Clifford Blue Concept Musicians.

Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce - Jazz Lab () A1 Speculation A2 Over The Rainbow A3 Nica's Tempo A4 Blue Concept B1 Little Niles B2 Sans Souci B3 I Remember Clifford Alto Saxophone – Gigi Gryce Baritone Saxophone – Sahib Shibab (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3) Bass – Wendell Marshall Drums – Art Taylor Horn – Julius Watkins (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3) Piano – Tommy Flanagan (tracks: A1 to A3, B2.

Dec 16,  · Columbia CL Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce. Jazz Lab Quintet.