Donald Byrd - Witch Hunt (Street Lady 1973)

Street Lady, a landmark album by Donald Byrd, the first one where he really started to click with jazz-funk producer Larry Mizell! Mizell and Byrd had worked together previously on the Black Byrd album, a soaring bit of futuristic jazz funk that took Byrd's career to a whole new level, but this album's the one where they really began to make the formula cook, blending together tight funky rhythms, spacey keyboards, soulful vocals, and some of Donald's best solo work of the 70s! Producer/arranger/composer Larry Mizell conceived Street Lady as a concept album to a spirited, independent prostitute. You can picture the Street Lady, decked out in polyester, cruising the streets surrounded by pimps with wide-brimmed hats and platform shoes.

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• Donald
• Byrd
• Witch
• Hunt
• 1973

[doc2skate]

From the days when Jazzmen walked the earth.

[slapbush]

74', norman connors ,roy ayers, bob james,gil scott, the mizell brothers,grover washington,weather report,chuck mangione, earth ,wind, and fire, stevie,marvin,curtis ...wonderful time for music..all good things must end...but classics live on!!!

[johnsonceleenalyce]

sssssoooooooooo soothing what i'm about real music back in time.

[forteezblok]

No ? This is tha Proffessor Byrd One of my popz favs man this album makes me feel it that yellow LTD popz so smoove thanx....

[pharaoh531]

Living in MO TOWN...playing chess listening to Byrd...hit a line here and there...a sip of this and that...bring back a lot of thoughts...

[benjaminb71]

it makes my cry... i want to go back in the 70's please!... don't leave me here with all those barbarians! ... i want to be back at home... simply...

[NativeBostonianKP]

@doc2skate ..........Yup!!!!

[NativeBostonianKP]

@doc2skate ..........Yup!:-)



[dwalace4]

First of all musicans back then put you in a time and place. Musicians stayed in the pocket and grooved, and they were very serious.

[sometimes350]

This is some cold musicians at work..... I was five years young listening 2this at home with my dad......not knowing I would repeat that experience....years later.